Nigerian president Buhari must expose all culprits behind $50m recovered loot

It has been three days since the sums of $43m,
N23m and £27,000, totaling a value of $50
million was found in apartment 7B of Osborne
Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos but the culprits behind
the massive stash of sealed forex bundles are
yet to be exposed.
SR tweeted that Buhari simply asked for the
funds to be returned to the central bank and has
yet made no formal condemnation and
commanding directive for a thorough
investigation.
Distressingly, there are reports that Nigeria's
intelligence agency, NIA has staked claim to the
discovered loot. This is atrocious and a stab at
the intellect, conscience and hopes of
Nigerians.As typical, three days in, Buhari's
lackadaisical response to this stupefying find
portrays his physical and/or official weakness as
president of Nigeria.
The NIA cannot stash millions of dollars in a
private building. The NIA does not operate
moving such massive amounts of foreign
currency within the country in such vagrant
fashion. If indeed the NIA needed to move such
massive amounts of foreign currency for
clandestine operations including bribing Boko
Haram or other such tasks Nigerian agencies
have been reported to have been engaged in, the
funds would have been kept in a public-owned
and protected safe house or bank in the interim,
not in a privately owned property with no
government guards. This is a risk to national
security and a violation of the Nigerian
constitution. Private landlords have keys and
access rights to all flats on their premises in
case of water, fire or other danger. Thus such
monies of the citizens of the federal republic of
Nigeria would be exposed to unwarranted risk.
Again if the Nigerian spy agency owns this
money, it raises legitimate suspicion that the
agency may be involved in planting sums of
money later reportedly discovered by the EFCC
as an organized incrimination and distraction
propaganda project. Such questions are
automatically raised by the alleged claim of
ownership of such amounts of suspicious funds.
There are reports in the media that a serving
APC minister, Rotimi Amaechi is the owner of
the implicated apartment in which the funds
were found. Guarantee Trust Bank, former PDP
chair Adamu Muazu, the remaining tenants in
the premises which allegedly include Sacked
NNPC MD, Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, former
governor Peter Obi, Lagos senator Yayi and Mo
Abudu among others, likely know the owner of
apartment 7B. It is thus an insult on Nigerians'
collective intelligence and the whistleblower
campaign against graft, that the identity of the
owner of the apartment is still kept under lock
by the economic and financial crimes agency,
EFCC.
Hiding the culprits behind this recovered massive
heist protects the looters and central bank
governor(s) implicated in the robbery of the
common wealth of Nigerians. The serialized
monies found are easily trace-able and should
have been traced already to find out why and to
whom the central bank of Nigeria opened its
vaults for personal or political gains.
We hereby urge the Buhari government to stop
taking Nigerians for a ride. The war against
corruption must be unbiased and impartial or
should as well be terminated. There are no
sacred cows.
President Buhari campaigned and won on the
mandate to fight corruption without betrothal to
anyone. He condemned the open looting of the
central bank by his predecessor and must not
be implicated in aiding, abetting and concealing
such acts.