Bad governance protest: Nigerian government places sponsors on watchlist, freezes accounts
The Nigerian Government on Tuesday disclosed that it has identified Nigerians in the diaspora who are sponsoring the bad governance nationwide protest and has placed such individuals on a watch list and also frozen their Nigerian accounts.
Penpushing reports that the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Kemi Nandap, made this known assuring that the sponsors who he did not disclose their true identities will be arrested when entering the country.
The Comptroller General at a press conference by the heads of security agencies and Service Chiefs convened by the Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) emphasized any attempt made by the sponsors will be notified
‘We have identified some diaspora sponsors; they are on our watch list. “Any attempt they make to come into the country, we will be notified, and they will be picked up and handed to the appropriate authority’, he stated
Penpushing further reports that Nandap explained that the service had, in response to the protest, deployed more officers to land borders and airports to ensure effective manning of those entry ports, adding that the organization had equally stepped-up surveillance to prevent foreign intervention in the country.
The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, in his own account said the police had uncovered some sponsors but declined to give further information on them, adding that some bank accounts of such individuals had been blocked, and that many of them reside abroad.
Penpushing also reports that in similar vein the Director General of the State Security Services, Yusuf Bichi, represented by the service’s spokesman, Peter Afunanya, said that the service was monitoring those concerned, stressing that the service was also working with the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit to identify more people behind the protest’s funding.
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