VIEW FROM THE GALLERY BY MAHMUD JEGA
Three top security agencies, Nigeria Police, Department of State Service [DSS] and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC] have been asked to jointly wade into the matter of the phantom Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council [PFIPC], the biggest scandal to envelop the three-year-old Tinubu Administration since Maryam Shetty, Betta Edu and the amnesty list.
The cops must be wondering, “the terms of reference for the probe are severely limited.” The statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity Temitope Ajayi, which announced the order, said the cops are to “unmask the internal criminal elements working with Prince Matthew Adeniyi to operate a fictitious presidential agency for prosecution.” The statement also concluded the probe before it started by saying that Adeniyi is “an irredeemable con artist who is expertly exploiting Nigerian public psychology regarding corruption to shield himself from criminal accountability by dragging the name of the Chief of Staff into his multi-billion-naira fraudulent enterprise.” If the Presidency has already reached this conclusion, the cops would be wondering what else is there to investigate.
