“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.