President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s record with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will be released beginning in October in compliance with a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
The documents are approximately 2,500 and they are all related to Tinubu, according to a report by Peoples Gazette.
The freedom of information request was filed in 2022 by Aaron Greenspan, who runs PlainSite, a website on anti-corruption and transparency in public service in collaboration with journalist David Hundeyin.
In its response, the FBI said it would start releasing the documents effective October ending at 500 pages per month.
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“FBI has identified a total of approximately 2500 pages potentially responsive to FOIA requests 1553430-00 and 1587544-000,” the U.S. body said in a status report docketed on September 11 at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. “FBI plans a processing schedule of 500 pages per month, with an initial release anticipated by the end of October 2023.”
The documents will likely clarify outstanding questions about Tinubu, especially his forfeiture of $460,000 over drug dealing in Chicago in the 1990s.
Also in compliance with the FOI request, the U.S. State Department, Internal Revenue Service, and Drug Enforcement Administration have all indicated readiness to turn over thousands of pages of Bola Tinubu-related records. The Central Intelligence Agency also said it was collating records of Mr Tinubu for release in compliance with the law.
Effective October, the State Department said it would start turning over 450 pages from its archive on Mr Tinubu every six weeks.