Federal government protecting the original owner of money found in Ikoyi apartment - Fayose

Governor Ayodele Fayose has said the
All Progressive Party-led government
under President Muhammadu Buhari is
not fighting any corruption.
Fayose said the government is using it's
anti-corruption campaign to attack
political opponents and turn Nigeria to
a one party state.
Fayose said: "Yesterday, it was made
public that the National Intelligence
Agency (NIA) claimed ownership of the
$43,449,947, £27,800 and N23, 218,000
seized on Wednesday by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
from Osborne Towers, a luxury
residential complex in Ikoyi, Lagos.
"This, to my mind is one cover-up too
many and this federal government
seeming plot to protect the original
owner of both the money and the
apartment where it was found has
further shown that the anti-corruption
fight is political, selective and therefore a
ruse.
"Nigerians should recall that I have
consistently maintained that the APC-led
federal government was not fighting any
corruption. Rather, the government is
using the anti-corruption fight as a
major political tool to cripple opposition
and turn the country to a one party
state.

"Therefore, for once, the federal
government should operate with the
mind-set that Nigerians are no fools.
They are capable of asking questions and
they are already doing that. Some of the
questions being asked are ,who is the
owner of the apartment in which the
money was found?, does the apartment
also belong to the NIA?
"If the apartment belong to the NIA,
when was it bought and from whom, if
the apartment does not belong to the
NIA, from whom and when was it
rented?
"How could a whistle-blower be aware of
movement of money into one out of many
apartments in a building without
knowing the owner of the apartment, if
truly the NIA was carrying out a “covert
operation” as claimed, was President
Muhammadu Buhari not briefed of the
so-called “covert operation” when he
took over power?
"Was the National Security Adviser
(NSA), whose office controls all
intelligence agencies, including the EFCC
and DSS not aware of the “covert
operation”?
"Was there any security presence at the
vicinity of the apartment to suggest that
it was being used as warehouse for over
N13 billion cash belonging to the NIA?
"Does NIA need an unprotected
apartment to keep such huge sum of
money purportedly meant for covert
operation?
"How much was released for the so-
called “covert operation”, how much has
been spent and to who was account
rendered up to date? As for me, the
script being acted on this discovered
cash is a cover-up that will mar the
EFCC and the federal government. It is a
movie well scripted for some alawada
(comedians) but acted so badly.

"It is case of a dog that has been eating
other people’s children to the admiration
of its owner suddenly attacking the
beloved son of the owner’s friend and
they are now trying to cover-up the dog
owner. It is a major test of the integrity
of the APC federal government’s so-called
anti-corruption fight, and the earlier the
proponents of the cover-up plot come
back to their normal senses and tell
Nigerians who owns the apartment in
which the money was found, the better
for them.
"In the last few weeks, we have been
served with dramas of recovery of funds
by the EFCC. N49 million in cash ranging
from N200 to N50 was said to have been
found in Kaduna Airport and was
promptly “arrested” by EFCC officials.
But up till now, Nigerians have not been
told the identities of those who brought
the five sacks in which the cash was
found into the airport despite the
presence of CCTV cameras at the
airport."
"EFCC also fed Nigerians with tales of
recovery of N448,850,000 (Four hundred
and forty eight million, eight hundred
and fifty thousand naira) cash from a
shop at LEGICO Shopping Plaza, Ahmadu
Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos.
"We were told that the shop had not
been opened for two years and one
wonders how the cash got into the shop.
Up till today, EFCC is yet to tell Nigerians
the identity of the owner of the shop and
Nigerians are asking whether or not the
Legico Shopping Plaza, Ahmadu Bello
Way, Victoria Island, Lagos is not owned
by anyone and the owner of the Plaza
won’t be able to identify his or her
tenant.
"As for this latest drama, which has
boomeranged, even though we know that
the APC-led federal government has the
capacity to sweep it under the carpet like
many others before it, Nigerians will
have it on record that they are being
ruled by a government of “the more you
look, the less you see.”
It was gathered that EFCC operatives
discovered the sum of $43.4 million,
£27,800 and N23 million from an
apartment in Ikoyi on Wednesday, April
12.
An information allegedly received by
Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission was what led to the
discovery of the money but the owner of
the apartment and money is yet to come
forward.
Meanwhile, Former aviation minister,
Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has described
the minister of transport, Rotimi
Amaechi as a serial traitor.
Fani-Kayode also alleged that Lagos
apartment where EFCC discovered huge
cash belongs to Amaechi.