Panic in CBN, NIRSAL, as Tinubu’s Special Investigator, Jim Obazee Swings to Action.

Indications are that tensions are rising within the management of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian Incentive Risk Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), as President Bola Tinubu’s Special Investigator, Jim Obazee, has swung into action.

Recall that the president had appointed Jim Obazee as a Special Investigator to probe the activities of the CBN and other related entities.

Tinubu, in the letter dated July 28, said the appointment of Obazee, was based on the fundamental objective outlined in Section 15(5) of the Nigerian Constitution and was in furtherance of his administration’s anti-corruption fight.

VOP News gathered that Obazee, who is to report directly to the president in a letter dated. August 18, addressed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), had requested the deployment of four senior officers to his office to assist in the smooth take-off and execution of his task.

The team, which is headed by DCP Eloho Edwin Okpoziakpo, is already sending jitters down the spines of the top management staff of the CBN and NIRSAL, as the team has commenced its preliminary intelligence.

Among other intelligence DCP Eloho and his team are said to have developed is that on NIRSAL and the Anchor Borrowers Programme, which have over the years been at the centre of investigations.

It would be recounted that recently, President Tinubu recently gave a marching order that all funds allocated to these agricultural programmes be recovered.

investigators are also set to unravel how the Anchor Borrowers Funds were being kept as fixed deposits by parties close to the embattled CBN governor.

The source disclosed some of the individuals involved in the fixed deposits (names withheld) are currently in panic mode.

VOP News learned that an aide of the former CBN governor is said to have operated a total of 61 bank accounts that included 44 fixed deposit accounts and 2 treasury bills accounts.