Unknown persons have broken into the office of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) on Thursday night, destroying computers containing certain vital and sensitive documents.
POLITICS NIGERIA learned that the attack on the NFIU offices happened after the Presidential Panel probing the suspended acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu asked for the transaction history of a Kaduna-based Bureau de change (BDC).
It was gathered that the documents on the computers could help in the ongoing investigation of Magu, who is being accused of financial malfeasance.
According to reports, the BDC which has alleged links to Magu has recently transacted businesses worth over N500 billion in different currencies — N336 billion, $435 million and €14 million.
However, some officials of NFIU who appeared before the presidential panel on Friday morning told the panel that their office has been vandalised, saying that the transaction history of the BDC could not be made available.
The NFIU officials said they were without the documents required by the panel to aid the investigation, and advised the panel to visit their office for confirmation.
However, before the panel members got to the NFIU office on Friday morning, some unknown persons had broken into the office, went straight to the room where the documents were stored in the computers and destroyed them all.
The Director-General of NFIU, MModibbo Hamman-Tukur, had since reported the incident to President Muhammadu Buhari who approved Magu’s suspension Friday afternoon.
this government is running out of reasoning where looting is halal for it’s officials