President Muhammadu
Buhari has approved the appointment of Ahmed Rufai Abubakar as the Director
General for the National Intelligence Agency (NIA)
.
Until his
new appointment, Abubakar, a retired career foreign service officer, served as
senior special assistant to the president on foreign affairs/international
relations.
A statement
by Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina
yesterday explained that the appointment was with immediate effect.
President
Buhari had last year directed the suspension of the Director General of the
NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke.
In a
statement signed by Adesina, Buhari ordered a full-scale investigation into the
discovery of large amounts of foreign and local currencies by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a residential apartment at Osborne
Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, over which the NIA had made a claim.
The
investigation was also to unravel the circumstances in which the NIA came into
possession of the funds, how and by whose or which authority the funds were
made available to the NIA, and to establish whether or not there had been a
breach of the law or security procedure in obtaining custody and use of the
funds.
A three-man
committee comprising Vice President Yemi Osinbajo conducted the investigation.
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