Monguno had raised a three-member panel to inspect the projects the NIA was undertaking which were approved by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The current National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, has reportedly said President Muhammadu Buhari was duly informed about the National Intelligence Agency’s covert operations.
In a report by Premium Times, Monguno explained that the covert operation that went awry with the discovery of over N13 billion in an apartment in Lagos in April 2017 was communicated to the President.
A May 17, 2016 correspondence —with reference number: NSA/332/S— written to Director-General of the NIA, Ayodele Oke, as part of the of NSA’s oversight activities concerning the NIA covert operations which was already underway at the time has further confirmed this.
According to the letter to Oke, Monguno reportedly said: “Detailed brief of this exercise was rendered to the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces who expressed satisfaction on your agency’s foresighted disposition on development of its critical infrastructure.”
It was further reported that three months earlier, Monguno had raised a three-member panel to inspect the projects the NIA was undertaking as part of the clandestine operations approved by former President Goodluck Jonathan.
In its report to the NSA on February 29, the team expressed satisfaction with the level of progress on the overt and covert projects, which has a budget of $289 million.
The panel, which Monguno described in a document as having conducted “a comprehensive inspection of the NIA projects both in Lagos and Abuja,” was led by Adeyinka Famadewa, a brigadier-general in the Nigerian Army with specialities in military intelligence.
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Although Monguno did not openly deny knowledge of the operations and projects, several presidency sources have suggested that neither the NSA nor the president was briefed about the $289million released to the NIA or the projects being executed with it.
President Buhari also indicated that he did not know about the operation when he suspended Oke from office and set up a panel to investigate the “circumstances in which the NIA came into possession of the funds.
On April 12, 2017, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had recovered of $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 from an apartment at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos.
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