Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
The US Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI), has been directed to make information about Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, public.
A United States District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over by Judge Beryl Howell, gave the directive.
The development was in response to a motion by an American, Aaron Greenspan, who is seeking a reconsideration of an earlier ruling.
Judge Howell stated that protecting the information from public disclosure is neither logical nor plausible.
Greenspan had accused the FBI of violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by failing to release within the statutory time “documents relating to purported federal investigations into” Tinubu and one Abiodun Agbele.
Tinubu was alleged to have forfeited $460,000 to the US government in 1993 after authorities linked the funds to proceeds of narcotics trafficking.