The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had in 2017 recovered $43 million from a house in Osborne Street, Ikoyi, Lagos
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Recall that operatives of the DSS stormed the residence of Ambassador Dauda at 3, Osaro Laneane, off Osaro Close, Maitama on Monday evening with a directive to forcefully evict him
Since its inception 32 years ago , nobody below the rank of a Director has been appointed as its head. This explains why we regard the recent appointment of Ahmed Rufai ABUBAKAR, a man who is on record to have failed to merit elevation to the rank of Director and who has retired from service to come and preside over people who are not only his seniors in rank but who fit into the order of precedence
Magu disclosed this on Wednesday when he spoke with State House correspondents in Abuja.
He said nobody, no matter how highly placed, was above the law of the land
The EFCC had on Tuesday attempted to arrest former Ita and Oke in the Abuja residences, moves which their security details resisted
In the move to arrest both men, operatives of the agencies drew their guns, cocked and came close to shooting themselves
The appointment was said to have been quietly approved by President Muhammadu Buhari over the weekend
The Chairman of the group, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, Debo Adeniran, gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos
Fayose said this in a statement on Monday
Buhari on Monday sacked both men from office
This was announced on Monday in a statement by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, stated this while speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja
Osinbajo said this on Wednesday after he submitted the report of a panel, which he headed, that probed Lawal and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, to President Muhammadu Buhari
This was made known by the Presidency in the early hours of Wednesday
In an affidavit and exhibits tendered to support a prayer for the permanent forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government, the EFCC said a company called Choba Ventures Limited bought the Flat 7 and paid for it between August and September 2015.
Fine and Country Limited was the vendor
The committee has been investigating the involvement of the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke, and the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal over the Lagos cash and the PINE contract respectively
Malami disclosed this on Tuesday after a meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
Should any NIA officer be found culpable, he or she should be quietly eased out. Putting a foreign intelligence officer on trial in an open court is going to be disastrous to external national security interests
The report of the committee is expected this week
Lawal and Oke were suspended for their alleged roles in a grass cutting contract under the Presidential Initiative for the North East and the discovery of N13 billion cash in various currencies in a Lagos flat respectively