The committee is expected to submit its report next week, tentatively May 2.
NIA had laid claim to the $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23, 218,000 seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from Osborne Towers, a luxury residential complex in Ikoyi, Lagos, during a raid, raising questions over the integrity of the agency.
The monies were reportedly hidden in safe cabinets inside one of the apartments in the building.
Though detail of the operation carried out by the agency was sketchy, some names were immediately touted as owners of the money and linked to the flat including the former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as owner of the Osborne Towers, Adamu Muazu; Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, who was recently relieved of her appointment as Managing Director of NNPC (Retail); Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, and a daughter of Tony Anenih, a former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP. They have all distanced themselves from the allegations.
The controversy, however, took a new turn when the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) was alleged to have immediately laid claims to the recovered loot, stating that the monies were kept for a “covert operation”.
This had raised issues on why the monies were not kept in a safe at the agency’s office which is mainly guarded by armed officers.
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