IkoyiGATE Apartment May Be Sold.

Apartment 7B, the Osborne Towers expensive home where $43.4m was found, may be sold, it was learnt.

A Presidential Investigative Committee is probing the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ayo Oke, over the cash and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, for a N200million contract awarded to a company, Global Vision Limited, linked with him.

There were indications yesterday that:
•the committee may have concluded the SGF’s case, which a source described as “straightforward”;

•the Presidency is of the opinion that the National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Babagana Monguno, has no case to answer on the $43.4m; and that

•the committee may not ask Monguno, who is one of its members, to step aside.

It was learnt that a directive had been given to the agency to put the apartment in the property market.

The apartment may fetch the agency about N200 million, a source said.

The outcome of the Osinbajo Committee’s report will determine whether or not the EFCC has any further role to play on the seized $43.4 million and the N200 million alleged contract scandal.

A source in the anti-graft agency said: “Once the report is submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari, whatever we should do will be communicated by the Presidency through the committee.

“If any public officer will further be investigated or prosecuted, it is the committee which will determine the next step.

“So far, it is becoming clearer that more public officers might have cases to answer.”

Edited from The Nation