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Money that could have been used to build hospitals to handle epidemics like this one on our hands.

Sunofgod:
Useless country...................useless people.

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Count me out.

NOL2dworld:



Na only God dey help this country he for don sink..


When ccorruption don become fantastic to them, wahala don dey.

RuudVanNisteroy:
The Senate Public Accounts Committee has launched an investigation into the $289m (N56bn) paid in cash by the Central Bank of Nigeria to ex-Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ayodele Oke.

The panel is probing the Federation Account from 2015 till date.

Officials of the CBN, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and NIA appeared before the panel on Thursday to defend their roles in the transactions.

The SPAC Chairman, Senator Mathew Urhoghide, told the officials that they were being probed following an audit query from the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation alleging that the money was not properly approved for payment by former President Goodluck Jonathan and others.

He also said there was no clear indication that the NNPC got the mandate to pay Oke the money in cash, because such an arrangement was contrary to the nation’s extant rules.

The issue became public knowledge when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, acting on a tip-off in 2017, discovered N13bn in foreign currencies in an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos.

It was later discovered that Oke and his wife, Folasade, allegedly kept the money there.

Further investigations revealed that the money was part of the $289m released to Oke by the CBN on the orders of the NNPC, which claimed to be acting on a presidential mandate.

Oke and his wife reportedly travelled out of the country for medical treatment when the money was discovered.

But the EFCC declared them wanted and preferred charges against them.

The anti-corruption body said the couple were declared wanted in connection with the $43m, £27,800 and N23.8m cash recovered from an apartment on Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017.

One of the counts read, “That you, Ambassador Ayodele Oke and Mrs Folasade Ayodele Oke, between August 25, 2015 and September 2, 2015 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this court directly converted $160,777,136.85 property of the Federal Government of Nigeria to your own use which sum you reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful act to wit: criminal breach of trust and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act 2012 and punishable under Section 15(3) of the same Act.”

The Senate panel said under Oke, the NIA was said to have collected $289,202,382 in cash for special operations from the account of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services at the CBN in February 2015.

The panel said the documents before them from the office of the AG indicated that the CBN paid Oke $289m in cash without proper approval from Jonathan.

Uroghide said the records made available to them had shown the transactions were against extant laws.

He questioned the NNPC’s decision to order the CBN to release such an amount of money to the NIA without a presidential approval.

But the NNPC claimed that the Presidency gave the approval to pay $289m to the NIA on February 16, 2015.

The chairman, however, said there was no document before the committee stipulating that Jonathan approved the release of the money to Oke.

He also said they discovered from the documents made available to them that it was the NNPC that advised the CBN to pay the money in cash.

Urhoghide said based on the audit query from the Auditor General for the Federation, the NNPC granted a request from the NIA to pay Oke $289m in cash and that the NNPC complied by directing the CBN to pay.

The representative of the NNPC, Godwin Okonkwo said before journalists were sent out of the investigative hearing, confirmed Urhoghide’s assertion but insisted that his agency acted based on properly issued approval before paying the money.

He said, “We complied with the request from the NIA based on presidential approval. It is not true that we said the money should be paid to the DG but to the NIA as an institution.

“I’m not defending the NIA for requesting the money to be paid in cash but considering the circumstances, which is for security purposes.

“The NNPC obliged because we are not in charge of security. If they request payment in cash and say it is for security, the NNPC cannot say no, and that it must be transferred through electronic means to a particular account.

“If anything happens afterwards, the NNPC will not be held responsible. It is the man who insisted that the money be paid in cash that would answer. “

Urhoghide further asked why the NIA should insist on cash payment when the procurement of the security equipment would be purchased outside the country but the NNPC representative said he was merely carrying out a directive to pay.

Urhoghide agreed with the submission of the Auditor General for the Federation in his audit query that there was no way the President would have directed the NNPC to pay $289m in cash to the NIA.

https://punchng.com/ikoyigate-senate-probes-289m-cash-payment-to-ex-nia-dg/

CRIMMINAL just like Dan Etete, former petroluem minister.

Sonnobax15:
Na who no go remit nai dem dey probe...you see those pot-belly senators probing,they aren't saints...corrupt leaders,corrup nigerians,everybody corrupt.

The fantastically corrupt Senators probing corruption. They are only looking for their cut.

When will they hold the AG responsible for the missing 2.9 Billion naira in the IPPIS?

make corona virus visit him and the people he stole the money with and for.useless theives

when they brought up an idea to flood the street and shut down the country in a revolutionary aggressive protest many coward youths will retreat and hide in their abode yet expecting Nigeria to be like Paris in few years. Nobody is ready to risk his/her life bringing redemption to our nation, we all like suffering and smiling and complaining . I wonder sometimes why a Nigerian is panic about the spread of corona virus in the country as if the present situation of the country is not even worst than covid19.

we're all hopeless until we hold our leaders accountable for the hell this country has turned to

Sunofgod:
Useless country...................useless people.

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Looking for avenue to collect their share.... My people my people.

This country is actually rich , for politicians to steal so much and it hasn't collapsed means we would be like USA if our leaders had sense

Patrioticman007:
What a corrupt elite, where are the Mr clueless president hailers & lovers. Imagine 56 billion naira stolen in just one day by one president called GEJ the drunkard. PDP una try ooooooo.

GEJ was the president in September 2015? And 2017 when they discovered the fund?

Pavillon:
wait, theres something im not getting, are ppl realy that heartless to embezzle large amount of money like this... N56bn is like half of some states yearly budget,

bro na that one u see.. u know talk of 550 billion of oriji dem

NOL2dworld:



Na only God dey help this country he for don sink..


When corruption don become fantastic to them, wahala don dey. No

so ta orji, rochas okorocha, & ibikunle amosun I'll sit down & probe another person? Wonders shall never end

Patrioticman007:
What a corrupt elite, where are the Mr clueless president hailers & lovers. Imagine 56 billion naira stolen in just one day by one president called GEJ the drunkard. PDP una try ooooooo.

E be like say na upside-down nai u read this article to know say no presidencial approval for this money wey dem corner put for their pockets.

is nnpc even the bank?
is nnpc even the bank?
is nnpc even the bank?
is nnpc even the bank?
is nnpc even the bank?
is nnpc even the bank?
is nnpc even the bank?
is nnpc even the bank?

Why is it only southern politicians are into EFCC investigation What happened to nyako , Babangida Aliyu and the rest

The annoying thing; is that the legislators only want a share of it and just keep quite. That’s what they do. It happens every time they probe agencies. If it was for the right purpose; that a good one, but me and you sabi say na padi padi government.

This country weak me....I swear

Why would the NIA request money from NNPC directly and the mumu NNPC would oblige them.

Everybody na boss for this country

The UK should come and repossess their prized possession. The goons here are on a jolly ride to paradise.

Cash payment was made contrary to extant rules abi? I hope they will also probe Tinubu and the bullion vans that entered his premises during election; moving that volume of cash as also contrary to our financial regulations and there's even no justification of security to claim since he's not a government official but a private citizen and APC politician!

The mess in Govt circle is too much .The politicians and civil servants are so megalomaniac that one begin to imagine the kind of spirit that lives in them..$289m cash payment to do what In a cashless economy ? These sets of people have now put us to trilion debt profile as a nation..their children won't know peace as God liveth.

Some morons are already blaming Jonathan even when the article clearly says that there was no document showing that Jonathan gave approval for the money to be paid.

Patrioticman007:
What a corrupt elite, where are the Mr clueless president hailers & lovers. Imagine 56 billion naira stolen in just one day by one president called GEJ the drunkard. PDP una try ooooooo.

I don't think you read the write up before typing up and wait till the investigation is over then you will realise there's no summary to it or any report to suit you

you are telling us what the NNPC spokesman said. what about what the NIA spokesperson said?