Two American banks have reportedly placed an embargo on accounts belonging to Nigeria missions in New York and Washington D.C.
According to sources familiar with on-going investigations initiated by two leading American banks, Bank of America and Wells Fago, the Nigerian missions, the country’s Embassy In Washington D.C and the permanent mission to the United Nations had their accounts frozen following the failure of Nigerian diplomatic officials to satisfactorily explain suspicious use of a total of $3.6 million sums, wired through separate accounts with the two banks.
According to sources familiar with the “critical investigations” that the officials of the two banks suspected that accounts belonging to the two missions might have been used as conduits for laundering and other unscrupulous activities.
After being flagged by relevant financial monitoring agencies in the united State, auditors from the two banks decided to scrutinise the missions’ books.
Employees of the two diplomatic outlets have been having issues paying bills and meeting other financial obligation because they have not been paid their salaries and other entitlement after activities relating to the operation of the missions’ accounts were poorly explained and as such were barred from continued operations.
A source said that some Nigerian officials devel-oped the habit of simply dumping funds with affected accounts without justifiable end use, thus turning the missions to conduit for siphoning cash from Nigeria.
Nigeria’s Auditor-General and his subordi-nate have since arrived the united state to assist in reconciling the reck-less and improperly kept books, it was learnt. But how the efforts of the au-ditors would clear the air on suspicions of stealing, fraud and money launder-ing remains to be seen. A source claimed that such suspected funds usually originate from state governors and other Nigerian functionaries.
Reacting, however, the Deputy Director Communications, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ogbole Amedu Ode, said, “As it is, I am just hearing this for the first time. I do not know anything about it. As a matter of fact I am out of town now but will be coming into Abuja tomorrow (today). If I call anybody there now I am sure they will not answer me, they will say this is weekend. So we will have to wait till Monday before we can confirm the story.”
Nigeria leader are full of disapointment excplept few like Rchas Okorocha
Since our useless leaders have chosen to toil in this form, this is how God will unravel all their dubious act one after the other. I failed to understand why our so called elders can not stay out of stealing. Do one take it that they are now deaf in such a way that even hand signals can not even stop them from it. I have never seen where bunch of elders can not decode a simple phrase. ” DO NOT STEAL OUR MONIES AGAIN! U guzs are not little little boys for GOd’s sake. Haba!
Wia re we headin 2, its getin worse d country should split
If u like, take a monkey to America. It wuld remain the monkey it has always been. Our leaders from top to the bottom are highly corrupt. Even the current president is a corrupt Mugu who thinks he can deceive the masses by saying he is fighting corruption. I think he is trying to deceive people who are wiser dan him. The fall of all these evil leaders shall be a crash. It’s a promise. The poor masses are dying everyday out of hunger and starvation. And some people are busy killing the nation’s economy pretending they are working. From now hencefort, God will smite them one after the other. Because the bible said ‘he who eats the bread of the destitute, his mouth shall be filled with gravels’.
What a shame
its the children i feel sorri for. criminals and thugs hav hijacked the leadership of this nation.