Crime
FOLASADE Oke, wife of Ayodele Oke, suspended director general, DG, National Intelligence Agency, NIA, was on Tuesday, May 2, grilled by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s led investigative Committee, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Sources at the Presidency said on Tuesday night that Oke, who arrived the Presidential Villa, venue of the committee’s sitting, at about noon, was grilled by the Committee for over two hours to shield light on what she knows about the $43 Million found in an Ikoyi, Lagos Apartment by the Economic and Financial Crimea Commission, EFCC, in April, which the DG of the agency claimed belong to the intelligence body.
Her appearance, one of the sources at the Presidential Villa said, was to enable the committee ascertain her level of culpability or otherwise in the scandalous case.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said “she was invited to testify before the committee to also know her level of involvement in the concealment of the $43 Million. There is this belief that if her husband kept such money in his possession for that long, the wife would possibly be aware of it. So it is good to clear all ends so that the government is properly placed to know who and who did what”.
The source who noted that there was nothing wrong in inviting Folasade added that “in the course of investigating a crime or an issue, it is not out of place to call anybody who may have knowledge or otherwise of such an issue, so inviting the suspended DG’s is not out of place”.
The Osinbajo led committee is expected to hand in its report to President Muhammadu Buhari any moment from now and those implicated in the alleged concealment of the $43 million as well as the contract in the Presidential Initiatives For the North East (PINE), for which Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation, SGF, was suspended would be prosecuted.
Abubakar Malami, attorney general and minister of justice, on Tuesday hinted of the possible submission of the Committee’s report to the president, on Wednesday. FrontiersNews
— May 3, 2017 @ 16:30 GMT
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