Precisely, it is one year now since the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, wrote to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), requesting the anti-graft agency to investigate a $9.5million fraud allegation and other allegations leveled against him.
Dr. Jamoh had considered the allegation against him too weighty and too damaging to be ignored. He therefore requested the EFCC in a letter he wrote to the agency on 24th May, 2021, to conduct a thorough and painstaking investigation into the fraud allegation. This is because, according to him, the fraud allegation had put his integrity and family name at stake. He also considered the allegation “insidious and perniciously damaging on the government and the country”.
He urged the anti-graft agency on the letter that was made public, to conduct a thorough investigation “with a view to unraveling the truth or the accuracy of the allegation” and to put the record straight in the public domain.
Jamoh also requested the EFCC to investigate the reports which had also demanded that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) be called to account how the huge sum of money was allowed into his private account in contravention of Treasury Single Account (TSA). The last paragraph of the letter emphasized:
“In view of this weighty allegation and the insidious and pernicious damaging effect on the government and the country, I hereby request that a thorough and painstaking investigation be carried out by your commission with a view to unraveling the truth or accuracy of the allegation. This is to put the record straight in the public domain.”
One is really perplexed that Dr. Bashir Jamoh’s letter to the anti-graft agency seemed not to have received any attention one year after. It is not even known if the agency acknowledged the letter from the NIMASA DG. This raises the questions? Did EFCC receive or not receive Jamoh’s letter? If it received the letter, why has there been no response, and why has the agency refused to investigate the allegation? What is actually staying the hand of the EFCC from investigating Jamoh?
It can be recalled that in May last year an organization that claimed to be an international investigating agency, Global Investigations United Kingdom, had reported that a whopping $9.5million had been traced to the account of the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh.
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