EFCC — The panel set up by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the reported interception of $10 million and one million euros in cash carried by two teenagers at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) on Friday is yet to access the suspects days after they were transferred from Lagos to Abuja for interrogation.

Daily Independent gathered that the probe panel is running out of patience as the teenagers were still being held by Nigeria Police.

It would be recalled that a team of policemen and State Security Service (SSS) had intercepted the money during a routine check at the International Wing of the MMIA.

An EFCC source disclosed that the commission was competent to look into such matters which border on money laundering or terrorism financing, adding that efforts have already been made by operatives to get the sponsors of the teenagers.

According to the source, the sponsors are suspected to be money bags who may have been sponsoring mayhem in some parts of the country.

He lamented that any further delay to release the suspects for routine questioning might jeopardise investigations and may even lead to misplacement of the cash.

"We are not taking chances as this discovery may lead to further discoveries that must have been covered previously, because in the past such cases were heard but investigations ended without reports to government," the source stated.

When contacted, EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Femi Babafemi, confirmed that the panel was still awaiting release of the suspects to enable the anti-graft commission begin work on them.