By OUR REPORTER
“FBI has identified a total of approximately 2500 pages potentially responsive to FOIA requests 1553430-00 and 1587544-000,” the US agency claimed in a status report docketed on September 11 at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C.”
Just as learned people, who are believers in the personality of Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, continue to dish out by their own interpretation 32-page documents released of him on order United States District Court of Justice Nancy Maldonado confirming that the certificate he submitted to Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was forged, a very more undamaged part of the revelations is about to happen.
This is as the world entered into the month of October in which the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) of tge United States of America promised last month to release the 2,500 documents it identified on Tinubu in its files.
The DEFENDER, in a report on Thirsday, had quoted American sycologist and mental health counsellor, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, saying that he had also in April written the FBI to release Tinubu’s file in his custody.
Nigerians may soon be treated, therefore, to the true account of President Bola Tinubu’s sojourn in the United States, when the FBI releases the information about him as they are in its database.
The decision was borne out of the need to comply with a Freedom of Information (FOI) request first filed last year by Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, in collaboration with some anti-corruption agencies in the US.
According to the People’s Gazette, the secret service claimed to have over 2,500 documents relating to Tinubu in its database, which it planned to release in batches starting late October. Today is Sunday tge October 8th, meaning any time as the months runs to the end, the FBI documents will start dishing out.
The online medium, citing a new court filing it claimed to have just obtained, had stated last month that the FBI planned to release about 500 pages per month of information relating to Tinubu in its custody.
“FBI has identified a total of approximately 2500 pages potentially responsive to FOIA requests 1553430-00 and 1587544-000,” the US agency claimed in a status report docketed on September 11 at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C.
It further added that, “FBI plans a processing schedule of 500 pages per month, with an initial release anticipated by the end of October 2023,” the Gazette stated.
The report described the decision of the US frontline law enforcement agency as “unexpected” on account of its “initial reluctance to turn over the documents in line with a freedom of information request first filed in 2022.
Aaron Greenspan, who runs PlainSite, a website that pushes anti-corruption and transparency in public service, filed the request in collaboration with journalist David Hundeyin.
The medium expressed the belief that the disclosure could clarify outstanding questions about “when Mr Tinubu entered the U.S., under which name he entered and all activities he has been involved in ever since.”
