Nairametrics| The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has produced evidence to show that wife of suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Folashade Oke actually owns the flat in Ikoyi where the controversial $43.6 million was found. The EFCC, at a Federal High Court in Lagos, presented 3 exhibits to this effect, according to ThisDay namely;
- The receipt of payment to Choba Ventures Limited (owned by Mrs. Oke and her son) and issued by Fine & Country Ltd, a real estate firm responsible for selling flats in the building.
- A Deed of Assignment between Union Bank of Nigeria Plc and Choba Ventures Limited
- A publication of an earlier order of the court, requiring that the owners of the money found in the flat come forward or risk forfeiting it to the Federal Government (FG)
According to the EFCC lawyer, in his appeal to the court for a final forfeiture, explained that the transaction took place in the following order of events
- Oke, through her company, Choba Ventures Limited, gave $1.658 million to Salla Petroleum and Gas Limited which turned out to be a Bureau de Change.
- Salla Petroleum and Gas Limited converted the money to naira and credited the account of Fine and Country.
- Fine and Country acknowledged the receipt of the money with a naira equivalent of N360,000,000.
- A Deed of Assignment was then executed between UBN and Choba Ventures Limited.
With the preceding argument, it seems clear that the EFCC is not awaiting the decision of the Presidential committee set up to investigate the matter, but rather pushing on with its own agenda of ensuring that the money is forfeited. The EFCC is relying on the expiry of the 14 days initially given by the court for the owners to show up or risk final forfeiture for its continued suit. How well this will go down with the Presidency however, remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that more actors are introduced into this drama on a daily basis. For a clear and comprehensive coverage of all the events related to the controversial money, follow Nairametrics Timeline of events.
we have various security agencies in Nigeria,and we do not know their function,police special branch,nigerian intelligence agency,state security service,department of state security.news report said the dg of nse requested for money.whichis instantly for ex-president gej,which he approved and required for the cbn give forex,which new said is for $300 million almost in cash,which partly is found partly in this flat.
There must be accountable and veribied and I think the nass must step in to hold those agencies accountable.we. reading about this abuses of power by security agencies.is Mrs oke part of Nigerian intelligence agency ?.the officeof the presidency,the offic eof national security adviser, the national assembly hasten overhule those security or intelligence and hold them accountable to the nation and the people,their budget must be hold in national budget,such dg of those organisation must be confirmed by the senate.if there is emergency,they should approaches the presidency and the senate intelligence and security comitee before money is given.
Most Nigerians thought Nigerian intelligence agency operate overseas.codinationation and filters comes from the office of the presidency and the office of national adviser,such organisation must be structured to shows division of labour.it is not a bad idea for Nigeria to have a separate communication intelligence organisation