Another $202m belonging to NIA missing, says Reps panel

The House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence has said that another $202m belonging to the National Intelligence Agency is unaccounted for and must be recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

The committee, which is chaired by an All Progressives Congress lawmaker from Zamfara State, Mr. Aminu Sani-Jaji, had investigated the $43m which the EFCC recovered from a building at Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in 2017.

….The committee’s report, which The PUNCH obtained on Sunday, indicated that the NIA collected a total of $289m as intervention funds during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The agency’s suspended Director General, Mr. Ayo Oke, was in charge at the time the money was paid to the NIA.

Out of the money, the panel stated that $43m was recovered by the EFCC, while $44m was transferred by the agency to another location for safe-keeping.

However, it stated that the balance of $202m could not be traced, as all the actors could not provide useful answers to the committee.

Punch, April 30, 2018

 

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