Exclusive: FG yet to reach out to Ikoyi whistle-blower

One week after the Federal Government promised to reward the person who provided the information leading to the discovery of $43.5 million, £27,800 and N23.2 million stashed at No. 16 Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, information available to Sunday Vanguard suggests that the government is yet to reach out to the whistle-blower.

Sunday Vanguard further discovered that another individual, Mr. Abdulmumuni Musa, who claimed to have revealed the existence of the money to the EFCC, has already written to the Ministry of Finance, pleading that the payment of the reward be withheld until his name is included as a whistle-blower.

He also contradicted claims that the principal whistle-blower, Mr. Stephen Sunday, has a mental problem, adding that he only knew him as a lover of alcohol.

However, Mr. Yakubu Galadima, the lawyer to the prime whistle-blower, who told Sunday Vanguard that the federal government was yet to get across to his client, said: “They have my numbers but I have not heard anything from them. I don’t want to preempt them”.

Vanguard, November 19, 2017

 

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