EFCC Invites Sacked DG NIA Over N13bn Ikoyi Cash

The sacked former Director-General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, has been summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his wife, Folashade.

The EFCC invited the duo over the $43m, N23m and £27,000 retrieved from an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos State earlier this year.

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“In furtherance of its investigative activities to unravel the circumstances surrounding the $43.45 million cash recovered by operatives of the EFCC in Lagos sometime in April 2017, we have invited former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayodele Oke and his wife, Folashade Oke,” Punch quoted a source within the zonal office of the EFCC as saying.

“Mrs. Oke had refused to honour previous invitations by the commission which resumed its investigation into the matter, following the Federal Government’s decision to relieve Mr. Oke of his position as DG.

“Besides the couple, other suspects are equally being invited to determine their culpability or otherwise in the humongous cash, in foreign currencies and naira notes, stashed in a residential building at Osborne road Ikoyi, Lagos,” the source said.

The anti-grant agency, according to the report, also summoned some offcials of the NIA and a Bureau de Change operator, Sulah Petroleum and Gas Limited, over the matter.

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