by Ndubuisi Ugah


Bid by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to unmask the owners of the abandoned N449, 000,860 which was abandoned in a shop in Lagos, may have started yielding dividends as a suspect, believed to be Bureau De Change (BDC) operator and who is in the know of the abandoned money has threatened to ‘reveal the real identity’ of the owners of the money.

The suspect, who is alleged to be a BDC operator, also debunked media reports that the recovered money had been stashed in the shop for over two years, insisting that the money was actually moved in on Thursday (April 6).

The suspect also told EFCC operatives upon surrendering himself on April 10 that it would be suicidal for the “owner of the money to abandon the money”. The EFCC had on April 7 swooped on an abandoned shop located in the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) complex, Legico, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, where reportedly recovered N449, 000, 860 which was hidden inside it.

It was reported that the sting raid was made possible after the commission received a tip off from a whistleblower that a huge sum of money was hidden in the shop, which the detectives confirmed on getting to the shop.

Recounting how the recovered money came into being, the suspect who, according to an EFCC source, is currently cooling off his heels in the anti-graft custody in Lagos, had said he was prepared to reveal the identity of the owner (s) of the money should the owner fail to own up to the ownership of the money.

The EFCC source, who confided in this newspaper, further stated that the suspect after surrendering himself, had threatened to “open up on the real owner of the money, after insisting that that would have happened after the expiration of April 10.”

The source said: “After we (EFCC) busted the N449, 000,860 which was abandoned in a Lagos shop, we intensified our dragnet to unveil the owner of the money, a suspect emerged surrendering himself to the commission by insisting that he knows the owner of the money. This development made us detain him and to further gathered more information concerning the money.

“The suspect made us to understand that the money was apparently moved in on Thursday (April 6) contrary to reports in the media that it had been moved into the shop for over two years.

The suspect said this is untrue. “Surprisingly, the suspect even in the course of interrogation, threatened to reveal the owner of the money should he fail to show up on Tuesday (April 10).”

Meanwhile, efforts to get EFCC’s spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, to confirm the story proved abortive. Text messages also sent to two of his telephones lines were similarly not answered as at the time of going to press.

This curiously made the commission to be on the lookout should anybody come up for the money.” The EFCC source also told this newspaper that the suspect, who was already cooperating with the antigraft agency, said the owner of the “money ordered the movement of the cash on Thursday” with the intention of getting it converted into foreign currency.

“It is instructive to note that the suspect also opened up that one of the reasons why the money was moved on Thursday in anticipation to get it converted was because the owner was convinced that the money and the shop are safe due to the presence of the Nigerian Air Force complex, which serves as a strong cover up and security,” the EFCC source added further.

LionDeLeo:
I thought every raid by efcc is stag managed.

sarrki:
Enemies of state won't like this

This is a bad news to them

sarrki:
Enemies of state won't like this

This is a bad news to them

ZombieTERROR:

Sure... Enemies of state won't like this
Especially the part where he said the money was not stashed two years ago but this April

Under Buhari ... They are still stashing money
Enemies of state won't like this

donmalcolm21:
You are the enemy of State since you couldn't say anything concerning the 15billion naira loot from Osborne

sarrki:


The money in question belongs to the enemies of state

That looted us dry

Soso dry


The money in question be it pdp or apc I don't care

All I want is justice

Only a fool will take a side with a party that loots us dry

donmalcolm21:
You are the enemy of State since you couldn't say anything concerning the 15billion naira loot from Osborne

LionDeLeo:


Is it not a stage managed propaganda again?

LionDeLeo:


And under same Buhari it was recovered. That is the difference. Under the other man, nothing would have been heard.

LionDeLeo:


Absolutely correct. Only enemies of state will support looting and whenever discovered, they come up with warped theories of one sided fight.

God bless PMB
God bless patriotic Nigerians
Long live The Fed Rep of Nigeria.

sarrki:


The money in question belongs to the enemies of state

That looted us dry

Soso dry


The money in question be it pdp or apc I don't care

All I want is justice

Only a fool will take a side with a party that loots us dry

LionDeLeo:


Absolutely correct. Only enemies of state will support looting and whenever discovered, they come up with warped theories of one sided fight.

God bless PMB
God bless patriotic Nigerians
Long live The Fed Rep of Nigeria.

donmalcolm21:
There is a reason i don't engage you here. You talk cheap, act juvenile, sound bigoted and your level of reasoning is always at lowest ebb on a reasoning scale.



You will be ignored subsequently so you can pour your spittle all over my mention

ZombieTERROR:

Under this regime
Recovered loots are re looted
Which makes it even worse

Can u give account of any recovered loot?
No u can't
The grasscutters are in charge

ZombieTERROR:

God cannot bless evil
Nigeria is a den of injustice and cannot be a source of blessing
Buhari is far from Gods blessing
Am just saying it... The way it is

sarrki:


That what enemies of state makes people to believe

Bro, did you know that this will affects there day to

day running of their Headquarters and state offices

across the land.

The major issue is there would be an eminent strike soon

Salary for months is at stake now

gbegemaster:
I don't see the relationship between this recovered loot and selective corruption fighting.

Selective corruption fighting is real and evidenced before our eyes. It's as glaringly as the sun.

By the way you seem to be another moniker of sarrki because you have exactly the same zealot mentality. Or maybe you guys dey the same "office". New employee?

donmalcolm21:
There is a reason i don't engage you here. You talk cheap, act juvenile, sound bigoted and your level of reasoning is always at lowest ebb on a reasoning scale.



You will be ignored subsequently so you can pour your spittle all over my mention

gbegemaster:
I don't see the relationship between this recovered loot and selective corruption fighting.

Selective corruption fighting is real and evidenced before our eyes. It's as glaringly as the sun.

By the way you seem to be another moniker of sarrki because you have exactly the same zealot mentality. Or maybe you guys dey the same "office". New employee?

sarrki:



A runaway wailing wailer

Check your sbc and Abs also check esp

For functional brake system

LionDeLeo:


Mynd44, OAM4J, good morning.

Cc seun.

gbegemaster:
Fully functional. I am worried about yours Bro.

sarrki:


But the scanner is showing otherwise

Let me re scan

gbegemaster:
I am shocked! So zealots use scanners?!!!!!!!

I thought you only wield........

Stop distracting me. I have clearly located one of your monikers. Make I face am.