Only recently, Monguno had insisted that nobody has the information about the whereabouts of the billions budgeted for the procurement of arms during the reign of ex-Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; ex-Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; ex-Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and ex-Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar as service chiefs.
Recall that in February 2020, Monguno had in a letter addressed to President Buhari raised the alarm over unauthorized meetings between Abba Kyari and the service chiefs, a development he said was adding to the niggling security challenge.
The NSA wrote: “Chief of staff to the president is not a presiding head of security, neither is he sworn to an oath of defending the country.
“As such, unprofessional practices such as presiding over meetings with service chiefs and heads of security organisations as well as ambassadors and high commissioners to the exclusion of the NSA and/or supervising ministers are a violation of the Constitution and directly undermine the authority of Mr President.
“Such acts and continued meddlesomeness by chief of staff have not only ruptured our security and defence efforts, but have slowed down any meaningful gain that Mr. President has sought to achieve.”
However, miffed by Monguno’s boldness, that Mamman Daura, Buhari’s nephew, Yusuf, a Personal Assistant to Buhari and Governor Bello Mohammad Matawalle of Zamfara State have ganged up to blackmail the NSA and have him keep quiet from questioning the whereabouts of weapons supposedly paid for.
According to findings, less than 24hrs after Monguno’s interview with the BBC, the cabal led by Yusuf aka Tunde directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to fish for “whatever” to indict the NSA.
Part of the moves according to a source knowledgeable with the scheme, is to investigate Brigadier General Jafaru Mohammed, a Director of Finance in the office of the NSA.
General Mohammed is suspected to be a front of the NSA whom they allege has acquired properties on behalf of Monguno.
It was the reign of Ibrahim Magu as EFCC Chairman, the cabal through late Chief of Staff Abba Kyari, had used him to investigate Monguno. The investigation yielded no result against the NSA whom many within the security circle see as upright and as someone not interested in primitive acquisition of materialism.
investigations revealed that once Magu was removed and Mohammed Umar appointed as Acting Chairman of the EFCC, he was immediately mandated to investigate the NSA. His investigations of Monguno throughout his short-lived tenure yielded nothing.
According to Pointblanknews.com sources, as soon as Monguno’s BBC Hausa interview over weapons for the military went viral, the cabal and the ex-service chiefs felt embarrassed and immediately commissioned the new EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, to go after the NSA.
“That is why as soon as that BBC interview was aired and the cabal felt embarrassed, they immediately asked Bawa to commence investigation of the NSA,” a source confirmed
According to the source, “they have investigated the NSA and found nothing. They did that twice with Magu and Umar and since they couldn’t link any corruption directly to him, they are going after his Director of Finance in hopes of getting something and they would fail.”
A top security source who described Monguno as a saint among sinners, said the forces fighting the NSA are bent on blackmailing him to make him keep quiet and desist from making further disclosures on the state of arms acquisition to fight insurgents. The network of the Aso Rock cabal namely Mamman Daura and Yusuf , according to our sources, has recruited the likes of Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, two former bosses at EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde and Ibrahim Magu, the new EFCC Chairman, Bawa, the governor of Zamfara, Matawalle, remnants of the cabal namely Babagana Kingibe and Lawal Daura, to prosecute their war of attrition against the NSA.
The latest onslaught against the NSA by Bawa through Brigadier General Jafaru Mohammed is said to be a continuation of the old script drafted by Magu and Lamorde. Bawa is described in security circle as the god son of Lamorde. It was said that Bawa’s loyalty is more to Lamorde than Abubakar Malami who recommended him for the EFCC top job.
Credit to Pointblacknews.com