– Politicians have been sacking personal staff members they cannot trust and keeping financial information far from others that they suspect
– Politicians are keeping money away from banks because they are also suspicious of their bank officials who sometimes work with security officials
– Bank officials are said to be quite interested in the 5 per cent reward that is stipulated in the federal government’s whistle-blowing policy for useful information
To protect themselves against whistle-blowers, politicians have begun taking security measures against domestic workers and other acquaintances that could betray them.
Nigerian Tribune reports that politicians have now taken to heavily screening housemaids, security guards and those who manage their accounts in different banks.
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According to the report, investigations showed that some politicians have heavily reduced involvement of personal guards and maids in their financial activities.
The EFCC and police have seized billions of naira through the federal government’s whistle-blowing policy
The report adds that high on the politicians’ list of suspicions are their bank account managers who they feel are collaborating security agencies in order to get rich quick due to the 5 per cent reward stipulated in the federal government’s whistle-blowing policy.
A source said: “The whistle-blower policy is causing a lot of strained relationships between big-money men and some banks. There are strong suspicions that some bank officials are collaborating with agents of EFCC and the police to leak the contents of certain accounts.”
Another source added: “The introduction of that policy has reduced the level of trust between politicians and many of the staff they previously related with freely.”
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The report says the several cash recoveries being made by the security agencies are due to the decision by politicians to keep huge funds away from banks because officials there are also interested in the reward for whistle-blowers.
“There are strong suspicions that account officers in banks are not too clean in some of the discoveries, especially the funds so far recovered by the police in recent times,” a source stated.
Another source close to a state governor said on Friday, April 21 that “the recent recruitment of low level operatives and their deployment as detectives by the EFCC is of a lot of concern to politically exposed persons who fear such junior persons could be employed in error as domestic helps.
“Indeed, there are fears that even private security firms guarding banks and other companies of interest could be harbouring whistle-blowers and operatives.”
Meanwhile, ZENITHBLOG.com gathered that a presidential committee led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has directed Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss Ibrahim Magu to continue investigation into the N13billion discovered inside an apartment at Ikoyi in Lagos.
Magu was quizzed on Friday, April 21 by the three-man committee which is chaired by Osinbajo and has as members attorney-general of the federation Abubakar Malami (SAN) and national security adviser Babagana Monguno.
Watch this ZENITHBLOG.com TV video of former GMD of NNPC Andrew Yakubu being arraigned by the EFCC over fraud and false assets declaration at the Federal High Court Abuja on March 16, 2017
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