Money Laundering: PDP Asks Presidency to Speak out on Nasir Danu’s Deportation

* Alleges suspect was caught with stolen money

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday challenged the
Presidency to speak out on the reported arrest of President
Muhammadu Buhari’s known confidant, Nasir Danu, at the Heathrow
Airport, United Kingdom, for alleged passport scam and money
laundering.

The PDP insisted that the silence by the Presidency on the
matter since the report of Danu’s arrest and deportation is
self-indicting, particularly given his reported confessions and
alleged links to persons closely related to Mr. President.

The party made the demand in a statement by its National
Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, alleging that he
was caught while allegedly ferrying stolen currencies for persons
said to be close to the Presidency.

The party said that the Buhari Presidency should speak out on
this huge scandal and allegations that Danu had been in the
business of connecting the said close relation of the president
with many oil contractors for alleged underhand deals through which
billions of naira get frittered.

The PDP noted that this was beside allegations of being a front
for scandalous contracts running into billions of naira from the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, among other government
agencies.

The party cautioned the Buhari Presidency to perish the thoughts
of concealing this scandal saying it is already in the public
domain with Nigerians demanding for investigations.

The PDP therefore charged the Buhari Presidency to immediately
order an open investigation into the matter and expose those in
this scandalous racket.

“Nigerians can now further see how the Buhari Presidency stinks.
Our party therefore insists that for a government that always
orchestrates claims of integrity and zero tolerance for corruption,
it behoves on the Presidency to come clean as well as order an
investigation into this huge allegation”, PDP stated.

Reports had claimed Danu was arrested at the Heathrow Airport in
the UK, few days ago with a fake Malta Passport and more than
£200,000.00 in cash.

One of the reports alleged that Danu had arrived the UK airport
and queued up on the line with passengers holding EU passports.

The reported added that an immigration officer called Danu from
the queue and his passport ran on the scanning machine, the
passport could not be scanned as the security features on the
passport returned invalid.

According to the report, the genuine document has been
unlawfully altered in some ways. They substituted some pages,
substituted a photograph and altered the personal details,
replacing them with Danu.

Danu was immediately pulled over in a room at the airport while
his carry-on bag was searched and a cash amount of over £200,000.00
found inside his bag. Upon cross-examination, according to the
source, Danu told investigators that he paid $30,000.00 to an agent
who helped him procure the Malta International Passport.

He also told investigators that he was carrying the cash to
deliver to someone in UK. It is not immediately known if the huge
cash was meant for the first lady, Aisha Buhari, who has been in
London for almost three months now.

Danu also enjoys close ties with the First Lady, Aisha Buhari.
He is the link man between the President’s wife and many oil
contractors who seek favour from the first lady.

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