Ikoyi money
The controversy trailing the discovery of stashed millions of
foreign currencies in an Ikoyi apartment, has taken another dramatic
dimension with the whistle-blower dismissing the claims by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that he had gone mad.
According to a report by Vanguard, the man said he was only
disturbed by the failure of the anti-graft agency to pay him the reward
for exposing the loot in accordance with the whistle-blowing policy of
the Federal Government.
Recall that the government had in 2016 approved a policy on
whistle-blowing that aimed at encouraging Nigerians to report financial
crimes which meansthat anyone who provided information leading to the
recovery of fund would be entitled to not more than 5% of the recovered
sum.
However, the revelations about the Ikoyi whistle-blower which were
made by his lawyer, Yakubu Galadima yesterday, were contrary to claims
by the Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu that the person had been paid.
Magu had at the 7th session of the Conference of State Parties to
the United Nations Convention against Corruption, said the
whistle-blower had become a millionaire.
He said: “We are currently working on the young man because
this is just a man who has not seen one million Naira of his own before.
So he is under counselling on how to make use of the money and also the
security implication. We don’t want anything bad to happen to him after
taking delivery of his entitlement. He is a national pride.’’
While puncturing the claims that the whistle-blower had become a
millionaire, Galadima said his client had been subjected to unfair
treatment despite heeding the call to expose looters.
He said the inability of the commission to pay his client the
reward after the forfeiture of the money made him to start shouting that
he needed his money at the Department of State Security Service, DSS,
apartment where he was kept.
At that point, the lawyer said his client was accused of being
insane, resulting in his relocation to EFCC office from where he was
taken to Yaba Psychiatric Hospital.
While reacting to the EFCC who said he is mad, he said; “The
day we went to the office of the then Acting President, they gave him a
number that he could reach at any time. So he has been communicating
with the Vice- President. Following the threats, they detailed some SSS
to be working around him.
“Because the guy had always been looking forward to seeing this
money and it wasn’t forthcoming, he started shouting. When he started
shouting, they said he was mad, that he is having a mental problem.
“The SSS people called me and said I should come and carry my
luggage. They brought him to the EFCC and abandoned him there. The EFCC
people called me that I should come and carry my client.
‘’On getting to the commission’s office, I was informed of my
client’s mental illness and plans to take him to the Federal
Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Yaba.
“I said he is not mad, that it is because you people are
holding his money that is why he is reacting this way. They insisted
that the guy was mad, that they had to take him to a psychiatric
hospital. They bundled this man. I said ok if that is how to prove that
he is not mad, no problem. We went to the psychiatric hospital in Yaba.
“They injected him and said they have to monitor him for a
month. They monitored him for a month. The day they were going to
release him, the EFCC called me again to come and carry my “critical
asset.
‘’This was a boy I never knew from Adam. I said ok, I went to
the EFCC, the guy said he was ok, there was no problem anymore. They
handed him over to me three weeks ago. I pay money into his account on a
weekly basis for his upkeep.’’
A letter to the President Galadima further disclosed that he had
written a letter to the President demanding that the boy be paid his
money.
The letter which was said to have been written on October 12, 2017,
partly reads: ‘’While you were away receiving treatment I wrote twice
to the Acting President through the office of the Acting Chairman of the
EFCC on 7th June 2017 and 24th July 2017 respectively.
"Because the money discovered was about N17 billion and not N13
billion that is being declared. It was calculated as at the time the
money was recovered.” He, however, dismissed reports that his
client would receive N350 million reward, saying that the actual figure
was N850 million.
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