Committee Chairman, Rep. Mark Gbillah, emphasises the need to give special protection to whistleblowers in the country in line with the current administration’s policy of fighting corruption.
Committee says whistleblowers were intimidated by a retired DIG in the Force Criminal Investigative Department (FCID) who forced them at gunpoint to sign an undertaking not to reveal details of the deal.
Any law enforcement agency wanting to track an individual or persons (foreigner or a Nigerian) involved in any crime that involves foreign nationals writes to us, and we do due diligence before putting such an individual on red alert, and this particular case is not different.
– AIG Garba Umar, Head of INTERPOL, Nigeria
The House of Representatives on Thursday commenced hearing into an allegation of 48 million barrels of crude amounting to the tune of $2.4 billion in oil revenue said to have been illicitly exported and sold in China.
Consequently, the lawmakers drilled the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Umar Garba, who appeared before the Committee over allegations of intimidating the whistleblowers of the illicit deal to conceal information and shield the personalities involved.
At the commencement of the hearing organised by the House Special Ad-hoc Committee, its Chairman, Rep. Mark Gbillah, emphasised the need to give special protection to whistleblowers in the country, which he noted was in line with the current administration’s policy of fighting corruption.
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