Former Assistant Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Dennis Amachree, has faulted the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) for being tge one in charge of the detained Binance executives.
He said the Office of the NSA is not a security agency that has a detention facility and should have transfer fleeing Binance executive Nadeem Anjarwalla to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) or the secret police.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Monday, he said the fleeing suspect and his colleague at the cryptocurrency exchange platform, Tigran Gambaryan, ought to have been placed on watchlist with the Nigeria Immigration Service with their photos and names flagged at all airports across the country as soon as they were arrested late February.
“If the man has been flagged as a threat or a suspected person, he should have been watchlisted,” he said.
“I don’t know whether the NSA has a detention facility. The NSA is an advisory body to the President. So, if he (NSA Nuhu Ribadu) felt that the suspects should be remanded, he should have sent him to the EFCC or the DSS to keep until the date of the court but to keep him in a guest house where he has access to telephone?
“For them now to allow him to go and pray? I think there are a lot of loopholes and lapses there. We have held heads of state in detention and they prayed where to live and eat and sleep. So, I don’t see why this particular guy will be allowed to go to the nearest mosque to pray and dissapeared.”
“There is a compromise,” he said, saying that the fleeing suspect must have “bought” some security agents to help in his escape. “I’m happy they’ve arrested some of them. Let them interrogate them and tell us how much he gave them,” he said.