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Kingibe In EFCC Mess

These are not the best of times for former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babagana Kingibe as the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been grilling him for days.

Babagana Kingibe

Mr. Kingibe headed a presidential panel that reviewed the operations of Nigeria’s prime intelligence outfit, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in the wake of scandals rocking the intelligence agency.

Mr. Kingibe was invited by the EFCC to explain his roles in alleged financial scandals during the assignment. Dauda Mohammed, who acted as the DG of the agency during the time of the assignment had alleged that Mr. Kingibe used his position to extort money from the agency.

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He told a House of Representatives committee probing alleged $44 million said to be missing from the NIA’s vault that he was put under pressure by Mr. Kingibe to make agency funds available to him.

The House committee had directed the EFCC to investigate the allegations made against Mr. Kingibe and his panel. Mr. Kingibe reportedly denied benefiting from the NIA or interfering with its activities, as alleged by Mr. Mohammed.

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Sources said… “Kingibe however admitted collecting N1.5 million weekly from the NIA in lieu of accommodation, aside feeding provided by the agency. Kingibe also reportedly consented to Mr. Dauda’s accusation of him travelling to Bauchi with NIA vehicles and security guard.”

“However, Kingibe vehemently denied Mr. Mohammed’s chilling charge of giving an alleged girlfriend of his monies in foreign currencies, at the instance of the latter.”

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An EFCC source said: “By the operational nature of the NIA, they don’t usually document such monetary transactions and this is a huge problem for our men.”