Nigerian government will soon name terrorism financiers in country, says Chief of Defence Staff

The Nigeria government has declared that process of identifying and prosecuting terrorism financiers in the country is ongoing, assuring that their identities would soon be made known to the public.

Penpushing reports that the Chief of Defence Staff, Christopher Musa made this known while speaking as a guest on a television programme, explaining that naming the financiers had been delayed because the matter involves legal complexities.

“I think the process (of naming the financiers) is on. (The delay was) because it has to do with a lot of legal issues and because again, it has to do with international connections. Some of them have funds coming from outside, we cannot do anything from within. We know them,” he said, adding that other financiers are within Nigeria’, he said.

“The local ones, what they do normally is to employ a few individuals, provide motorcycles for them and those are remitting funds daily into some accounts. So, it’s being tracked. They try to circulate those monies and that’s why we need to be able to track the funds’, Musa added

Penpushing further reports that the chief of defence staff commended the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) for its role in exposing financial links to terrorism.

“The NFIU has been doing so much (to track terrorism funds). Apart from the intelligence setup, the financial links are also being followed through and through, and arrests have been made’, he stated.

“I can assure you the Attorney-General of the Federation (Lateef Fagbemi), the National Security Adviser (Nuhu Ribadu), are all working seriously to ensure that we address those issues’, the military chief stated.

Penpushing also reports that Musa in same vein, said the State Security Services, the National Intelligence Agency, and other security agencies were working to track Nigerian politicians financing insecurity for personal gains.

“You know criminals work together. They synergise their efforts together, both the bandits and terrorists, because they have a common goal: they want to make money, they want to make sure communities are suffering for whatever reason,” he stated.

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