The suspended Director-General of the National
Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ayodele Oke, has met with Vice-President Yemi
Osinbajo, where he admitted that his agency received the sum of $289,202,382 on
the orders of former President Goodluck Jonathan in February 2015, according to
a report.
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, ordered the
suspension of Oke over the role of the NIA in the ownership of $43m (about
N13bn) and other currencies uncovered in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos.
Buhari also ordered the suspension of the Secretary to
the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, in connection with his
indictment for contract fraud by a Senate ad hoc committee on mounting
humanitarian crisis in the North-East.
A top government source, on Thursday, said that the
Osinbajo-led committee had directed Oke to submit documents to back his claim.
It was learnt that the suspended NIA boss had also
gathered documents which would be formally submitted to the panel showing that
the transaction was approved by Jonathan through the embattled former National
Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
It was learnt that the transaction was known as an
intervention fund for national security or special services with the aim of
fighting insurgency during the six weeks period between February 14, when the
Presidential/National Assembly elections were postponed and March 28, when the
polls were held.
However, operatives of the EFCC are said to be working
on the theory that the money was meant for the prosecution of the 2015 general
elections.
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