Director General of the NIA, Ayodele Oke, had said that the money, valued at N13 billion going by the current official exchange rate, had been released in cash by the CBN in order to maintain the discreet nature of the assignment for which it was approved.
“It is impossible, probably treasonable, that a security agency will be carrying out covert operations without the knowledge of the sitting president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces.”
The Rivers State governor insisted that the money should be returned to the Rivers State government within seven days or the state will take the matter to court.
Latest reports have it that the huge amount of money recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from a residential apartment in Ikoyi Lagos actually belongs to the National Intelligence Agency, NIA.
The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 recovered from a Lagos home by the Economic and Financial rimes Commission, EFCC, to the federal government.
“By this Press Release, we inform the public (especially the News Media)that the said sums of money and/or the apartment where the sums of money were found do not belong to Our Client,” read the statement by Nnamdi-Ogbue’s lawyers.
