With the controversy trailing the recovered N15 billion from a flat in Ikoyi, Lagos last week, pressure is now mounting on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which carried out the raid, to speak out on the recovered funds.
Though,
the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) had said that it owned the money, which
it claimed was for its covert operations, while responding to THISDAY enquiries
off the record, the EFCC, which carried out the raid and announced the
recovery, has kept mum since controversy began to trail the ownership of
the money.
EFCC had on Thursday
stormed a luxury apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, where it discovered cash in three
currencies stashed in fire-proof safes. During the raid on one of the flats on
the 7th floor of Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, a total of N13 billion, made
up of $43.4million, N23million and £27,000, was found.
Although
the EFCC did not give details of the operation, four names were immediately
touted as alleged owners of the money. Those allegedly linked to the flat and
cash include former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party and owner of the
Osborne Towers, Alhaji Adamu Muazu; Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, who was recently
relieved of her appointment as Managing Director of NNPC (Retail); and an
alleged daughter of Chief Tony Anenih, a former chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the PDP. They have all refuted the allegations.
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