The Missing $7 million That Belongs to Abuja Big Girl, Aisha Achimugu

 

The sum of $7 million was deposited at the headquarters of Providus Bank  in Victoria Island Lagos on March 26 and 27 this year.

 

The money was deposited under suspicious circumstances in raw cash.

 

Instead of paying it into a customer's account, the money was deposited into the vaults of ProvidusBank, which was unusual and suspicious .

 

An anonymous whistleblower who also works at the bank and who serves as a spy for the EFCC alerted the anti-corruption agency of the unusual transactions that just occurred at the bank.

 

Providus Bank reportedly failed to file a Suspicious Transaction Report (STR) with the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), raising further concerns and red flag about the legitimacy of the transaction.

 

Acting on that intelligence, the staff of the EFCC swooped on the Providus headquarters unaware, and the EFCC officials demanded for  the money, leaving with some bank staff for proper interrogation.

 

On further interrogation, the arrested bank staff revealed that the $7 million belongs to one of their biggest customers, Abuja big girl and Governor Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State's alleged sidekick, Aisha Achimugu, who is also the CEO of Ocean Gate Petroleum.

 

Aisha was invited by the EFCC to explain the source of the money.

 

She denied depositing that kind of money, claiming she borrowed $7 million loan from Providus Bank and had yet to pay it back.

 

Confused, the EFCC put up an advert in national newspapers, inviting whoever owned the contentious $7 million to come forward and explain its source.

 

However, nobody came forward to claim the money.

 

My brothers and sisters, ghosts or unknown persons now deposit money in our country.

 

The EFCC recovered the funds in raw cash and transferred them to the Central Bank of Nigeria for safekeeping.

 

Given the absence of legitimate claimants and the suspicious nature of the transaction, the commission went to court to secure the final forfeiture of the $7 million to the federal government.

 

The order of forfeiture was granted yesterday, and the $7 million deposited by an unknown person now belongs to the federal government of Nigeria.

 

For proper context, the value of $7 millions is 11.2 billions when you convert it to Naira using the exchange rate of 1,600 to $1 at the time of the transaction.

 

Strange story it is.

 

Isn’t it? 

 

Chukwudi Iwuchukwu