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
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Specifically, the Convener of the organisation, Ezenwa Nwagwu, told newsmen in Abuja that the reported involved former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and former Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke.
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
He grabbed the headlines as he filed a fundamental rights suit on behalf of Evans by dragging the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, and three others before a Federal High Court in Lagos, alleging illegal detention
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 Executive Secretary of he CCC, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas (retd), made the call at a special meeting of the Forum of Spokespersons of Security and Response Agencies in Abuja
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
I strongly believe at this critical period and with the unabated inter-agency rivalries and the incidence of leakages of classified information by some agencies of government, the current National Security Adviser, General Babagana Monguno, should be wary of these developments. Though a gentleman, he needs to be more pragmatic, charismatic, assertive and decisive in dealing with erring agencies
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
‘Once you fall out of line or favour, due courtesies may not be extended to you. I was instructed on many occasions to wait until certain persons left the Villa before issuing their sack statements. I once announced the disengagement of an important public official from the Presidential Wing of the airport as our aircraft taxied on the runway en route France’
The position of Umar, the Chairman of the Movement for Unity and Progress and former Military Governor of Kaduna State, was contained in a statement he issued on Sunday
President Muhammad Buhari earlier in the week set up the panel headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to probe the involvement of Lawal in a grass cutting contract under the Presidential Initiative on the North East and Oke for his agency’s involvement in the N13 billion cash found in a Lagos flat
The committee, headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, is probing suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke
Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, who spoke on the incident in Abuja on Thursday, described the reports as “unfair and uncharitable”
In a statement signed by the Coordinator of the Centre, Chido Onumah, AFRICMIL expressed delight that the success so far recorded was a pointer to the fact that the policy was proving to be an effective tool in checking widespread corruption in the polity
President Buhari on Wednesday ordered the immediate suspension of Lawal and Oke pending the outcome of investigation of allegations levelled against them