IKoyi Whistle blower get N421m to jet out of Nigeria

The Federal government, yesterday, paid N421 million to the Ikoyi whistle blower, who supplied facts leading to the discovery of $43.five million, £27,800 and N23.2 million at No. 16 Osborne road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
we gathered that the money was paid to the beneficiary by officials of the Ministry of Finance after which he left Nigeria for an undisclosed usa.
It was further discovered that the eventual recipient of the reward cash turned into the person that had earlier been taken to Yaba Psychiatric health facility, Lagos, with the aid of the economic and financial Crimes commission, EFCC, on the suspicion that he might be mad. but, what government paid in line with the Whistle-blower policy which advocated 2-5 per cent of any amount recovered for a whistle blower, was no longer the total amount due the Ikoyi whistle-blower. while the subsequent tranche might be paid couldn't be showed.
My purchaser’s been paid — lawyer The whistle-blower’s attorney, Mr. Yakubu Galadima, had in November, brushed off reviews that his client would receive N350 million reward, pronouncing the actual parent become N850 million. Galadima, but, informed us the day before today that fee of the praise to his customer had confirmed his insistence that he was the real whistle-blower, adding that the development is predicted to put an end to any doubt over who truly blew the whistle. His phrases: “My customer has been paid. He turned into paid the day past and has given that left the usa. As we're talking, he is not in Nigeria. but, the money turned into paid directly to him. “The authorities stated they have been going to pay the cash at once to him and that was what they did.  the person that was paid was the identical man they claimed had a psychiatric hassle
. “What has befell showed my customer, who has all along been called the major whistle-blower because the actual whistle-blower.’’ Controversy vanguard recollects that the issue had been enmeshed in controversy over the treatment meted out to the most important whistle-blower via the EFCC.

The Whistle-blower become forced to cry out, following claims through the EFCC Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, on the seventh session of the conference of state parties to the United countries conference towards Corruption that he had grow to be a millionaire. on the heels of that have been claims via  different men that they have been instrumental to the discovery of the cash. A criminal firm which claimed to be representing the Whistle-blower, and  others,  Abdulmumin Musa and Bala Usman, had petitioned legal professional-trendy of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami, to pay the cash to the three guys. within the peak of the debate, the whistle-blower, narrated solely to leading edge how he made the invention. at the same time as those lasted, the government insisted that it'd most effective reward the person  who supplied statistics that caused the discovery of the fund on the cease of last month. The government had in 2016, accepted a coverage on whistle-blowing that aimed toward encouraging Nigerians to report monetary crimes. Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, who announced the policy, said everyone who provided data main to the recovery of fund, could be entitled to not greater than 5 consistent with cent of the recovered sum.