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Re: Great Victory!!! Suspended NIA Boss, Ayo Oke, Declared Not Guilty, As Buhari, by fallout87: 1:02pm On Apr 26, 2017
Why wouldn't he be found innocent when he has implicated the NSA as part of the scheme and the NSA is part of the panel investigating.

This level of corruption is unprecedented.
Re: Great Victory!!! Suspended NIA Boss, Ayo Oke, Declared Not Guilty, As Buhari, by drshrewd: 1:46pm On Apr 26, 2017
GEJ is just another name for corruption
inventor of the line: stealing is not corruption grin
Re: Great Victory!!! Suspended NIA Boss, Ayo Oke, Declared Not Guilty, As Buhari, by hedonistic: 2:38am On Apr 28, 2017

While Buhari might not have been able to read the report, because of his busy schedule that was compounded by his health issues, the NSA, Ibrahim Monguno, is said to hate reading.

Just negodu the kind of buffoons appointed to sensitive and super important national offices. And yet we wonder why things would never work on this country. What a pity.
Re: Great Victory!!! Suspended NIA Boss, Ayo Oke, Declared Not Guilty, As Buhari, by slivertongue: 8:11am On Apr 28, 2017
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Top Security Experts on intelligence gathering, have declared the suspended embattled Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ayo Oke, not guilty, for stashing away $43 million, at a flat in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.

This came as the 3-man Presidential Probe Committee headed by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, swung into action, to unravel the mystery behind the huge cash, which was discovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

However, Intelligence Experts who spoke on Monday, warned that except the investigation is handled with extreme care, the nation’s intelligence community might be undermined with dire implications for national security.

They contended that because of the security implications of the operations of intelligence agencies, they operate largely undercover, making their modus operandi unusual, clumsy, and, in fact, sometimes illegal.

“The unusual operational practices of intelligence agencies are a worldwide phenomenon,” a source said on Monday, adding: “When Nigeria needs to intervene in the politics of another country, say Liberia, to install a President that will support its policies, how do you think it does it? It is the NIA that is used.

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“Where in its books would you find such operational funds? Another typical example was the $400 million cash flown by the United States government to Iran, after a deal was struck to end Iran’s nuclear programme.

“So there can be no such thing as money laundering as far as intelligence is concerned, because the agency’s operatives would always be in possession of money for covert operations,” he said.

Did the DG, NIA comply with this law? Insiders revealed that Oke did. In his April 2015 general brief to the President on the state of affairs of the agency, Oke itemised the $289 million intervention fund approved and released to the agency by the Jonathan administration, in November, 2014.

In another memo to the NSA in January, 2016, he gave more details of the funds, including projects being undertaken, the amount expended, balance in the bank, and cash at hand.

Based on his report, the NSA set up a verification team, which inspected the projects and submitted its report in February, 2016. The NSA wrote back to the DG, NIA, on 17th May, 2016, stating that the detailed report of NIA’s projects and exercises had been presented to the President, who was pleased with the agency’s foresight in developing the critical infrastructure outlined in the report.

If Oke filed his report with the appropriate authorities, why then is he in trouble? Insiders suggest that Buhari might not have read the reports, and secondly, that the inter-agency rivalry might have been at the root of his woes. Both might be at work.

While Buhari might not have been able to read the report, because of his busy schedule that was compounded by his health issues, the NSA, Ibrahim Monguno, is said to hate reading.

Recall, that there has been a running battle between the EFCC and NIA, since April last year, over the financial operations of the spy agency.

The EFCC had instituted a secret investigation into the Central Bank of Nigeria’s account of the NIA. The intelligence agency only became aware of the investigation, when the account of Julius Berger PLC, one of the Contractors handling its projects, was blocked.

Enraged by what it believed to be a breach of the law and security protocol, the NIA protested to the NSA, who in an April 19, 2016 memo to the EFCC, asked it to “refrain from the external audit of NIA and other intelligence agencies”, as it contravened Paragraph 12 (1) & (2) of NIA Instrument No 1, issued under the NSA Act, 1986.

The EFCC was apparently not happy with the NSA’s restraining order, insisting that it had the powers to investigate suspected financial crimes. The NIA opposed this claim, on the grounds that intelligence service involves national security, which cannot be enquired into by a non-intelligence body like the EFCC.

This conceptual disagreement perhaps, explains why on April 12, 2017, when the NIA requested the EFCC to call off its raid on its



Rubbish
Re: Great Victory!!! Suspended NIA Boss, Ayo Oke, Declared Not Guilty, As Buhari, by slivertongue: 8:17am On Apr 28, 2017
sarrki:


Bro remove the great victory

Victory for who ?

hope you now understand why i told you in a previous thread that nothing will come out of the probe.
Na dem dem. APC travelling evil route of the PDP
Re: Great Victory!!! Suspended NIA Boss, Ayo Oke, Declared Not Guilty, As Buhari, by Amhappy(f): 9:20am On Apr 28, 2017
EFCC Chairman should be sacked now. He just want us to believe that he's working thereby blowing a covert operation. From onset I knew that Oke is innocent. What sane man will stack that kind of cash and still be working to retire and get his benefit. Matters of National Security are no go area in any country. Their operations very secret,never follows protocol and large cash are always involved. Just like how US tracked and killed Osama. Sad we have a President who doesn't read reports and knows nothing about what is happening in his country. And the NSA hates reading too. Nigeria is in pooh.
Re: Great Victory!!! Suspended NIA Boss, Ayo Oke, Declared Not Guilty, As Buhari, by Feraz(m): 9:53am On Apr 28, 2017
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Based on his report, the NSA set up a verification team, which inspected the projects and submitted its report in February, 2016. The NSA wrote back to the DG, NIA, on 17th May, 2016, stating that the detailed report of NIA’s projects and exercises had been presented to the President, who was pleased with the agency’s foresight in developing the critical infrastructure outlined in the report.

If Oke filed his report with the appropriate authorities, why then is he in trouble? Insiders suggest that Buhari might not have read the reports, and secondly, that the inter-agency rivalry might have been at the root of his woes. Both might be at work.

While Buhari might not have been able to read the report, because of his busy schedule that was compounded by his health issues, the NSA, Ibrahim Monguno, is said to hate reading.


So a report was submitted last year, and due to their 'supposed nature of not reading', things became how they are. What rubbish is this? If both the president and Monguno do not read, how then can he read the daily cries of Nigerians and how will he make decisions then?

Sums up those we have up there leading us.

Finally, this is likely the last we hear of this.

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