TERRORISM: The Sunday Igboho connection and other ethnic agitators.

 Terrorism investigators have proven that one of the ways to get financiers of terror and other international crime is to follow the money trail. Many Governments have adopted this approach and made successes in infiltrating the networks of criminal gangs.

 In 2018, the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) (Establishment) Act was passed and transformed the Unit into an autonomous and independent agency embedded in the Central Bank of Nigeria. One of the core mandate of the NFIU is to curb Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing and Counter-Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/CPF) framework. Among other things is "Receipt of suspicious transaction reports from reporting entities including financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professionals."

It would be recalled that the Federal Government of Nigeria has arrested the Yoruba secessionist agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (also know as Sunday Igboho), while trying to flee the country through Benin Republic. One of the charges against him was that of terrorism.

Part of the investigation by the FGN stated “that Adesun International Concept Ltd (belonging to Igboho) transferred the sum of twelve million seven hundred and fifty thousand naira (N12, 750,000) to Abbal Bako & Sons.

The said "Abbal Bako & Sons and its promoter Abdullahi Umar Usman are suspects in the on-going Joint Terrorist Financing Investigation. Abdullahi Umar Usman is by way of financial trans

                     Sunday Igboho

action connected to SURAJO ABUBAKAR MUHAMMAD (who was sentenced to life imprisonment in UAE on charges of financing terrorism [Boko Haram]).

To properly state this in good perspective, the UAE had earlier arrested and sentenced six Nigerians on charges of financing terrorism. These reads in part "In April 2019, the Abu Dhabi federal court of appeal sentenced 6 Nigerians and found them guilty of setting up a Boko Haram cell in the UAE to raise funds and material assistance for the insurgents in Nigeria. These are;

1. Abdurrahaman Ado Musa

2. Salihu Yusuf Adamu

3. Bashir Ali Yusuf

4. Muhammed Ibrahim Isa

5. Ibrahim Ali Alhassan

6. Surajo Abubakar Muhammad.

It is clear that Sunday Igboho is connected to the sixth person on the list through financial transaction via Abbal Bako & Sons.

Multiple sources have provided that Sunday Igboho is getting funds from somewhere just like other insurgents in the country. Just as the FGN has cracked up an illicit financial transfers among and within about 500 Bureau de change (BDC) operators in April and March, 2021.

In a similar vein, Nnamdi Kanu, an Igbo terrorist who has masterminded the killing of scores of security personnel and burnt down several Government infrastructure, including Police posts and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices, was also arrested in Kenya. Mr Kanu was allegedly lured out of his hiding to Kenya in order to receive monetary donations from Igbo leaders sympathetic to the Igbo secessionist agenda.

The secessionists were said to be threatened after the US Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) flagged the banking accounts of IPOB and its supporters. 

It is worthy to note that the FBI is in active collaboration with the Nigeria counterpart, EFCC and NFIU in fighting and dislodging the networks of terror. This relationship is solidified especially after an Abuja Division of the Federal High Court refused an application by members of the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) seeking the nullification of the proscription order as a terror group made against them on September 20, 2017 by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Nnamdi Kanu

A peace group in Nigeria has counselled people to desist from supporting anarchist especially Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu. They revealed that both separatist have other citizenship apart from being Nigerians.

Sunday Igboho has a German citizenship. In fact, a German residence permit No. YO2N6K1NY bearing his name was recovered in his house when it was raided by DSS. He was ready to flee the country if war breaks out.

Similarly, Nnamdi Kanu has a UK passport. This also translate into swiftly moving out of the country in case trouble starts in Nigeria. Surprisingly, this is some of the areas Me Kanu is charged with; inciting violence, killing and burning of banks, shopping malls and the attack on the Oba of Lagos especially through his radio broadcasts.

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