OWNER OF IKOYI MONEY HOUSE FOUND.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has allegedly called an ex- governor and other top echelon owners of houses in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos a place about $50 million cash was found.

The people were said to have been called in for interrogation after the anti-graft organization discovered that a number of the occupants of the Towers were involved in smuggling the money into the controversial apartment 7B.

Coming from The Nation newspaper, the EFCC has also gotten how the apartment was gotten and in whose name it was acquired.

The EFCC officials had last Wednesday discovered  $43.4m, £27,000 and N23m cash from the apartment.

"The more we investigate this $43.4m haul, the more we get fresh facts. It has become imperative to interact with some owners or tenants of apartments in the Towers," a source at the EFCC had said to the newspaper.

"We have invited a former governor and other high-profile owners and tenants for interaction. It is just to ask a few questions on whether or not they were aware of such movement of cash.

"We have clues linking some occupants of the Towers to the cash haul. And in line with sections 16 and 17 of the EFCC (Establishment Act) 2004, we are inviting these landlords or tenants.

"Unless we get to the root of this case, Nigerians may not know the truth or otherwise about the cash.

"We are not saying that those invited are guilty of any infraction or having link with the $43.4million but we need to hear from them – in line with the on-going profiling of those in the Towers," the source further said.

Another source also revealed that the ongoing interrogation also unveiled that the 7B Apartment was bought in the name of a company reportedly owned by the wife of a top government functionary.

"Since investigation is still ongoing, we will not release the identity of the owner of the company. Doing so might jeopardise investigation," the source reveals.

Meanwhile, the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), stressed that the cash haul and the apartment in question belongs to the agency.

"What happened was that because of the nature of the covert operations which the apartment will be used for, it was necessary to manage the process well," a source at the NIA revealed.

"Only the Deed of Assignment was acquired by Thabis Ventures Limited on behalf of NIA. And immediately the process for the purchase of the apartment was completed, the ownership was clearly stated in the name of NIA. All the papers are reflecting NIA too. The title document is available for anyone to verify".

SaharaReporters had alleged on Tuesday that the haggard-looking female personality who pretentiously smuggled cash-bags into the house is in fact the wife of the NIA boss.

Earlier news had said the woman would dress dingily but her glowing skin and accent made guards stationed to the towers convinced that her outward show most likely would be a disguise.

It is, therefore, insinuated that she is the 'wife of a senior government official' mentioned by the EFCC informant.