{"id":150340,"date":"2025-02-14T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/binance-allegations-distraction-from-usaid-boko-haram-revelations-omokri"},"modified":"2025-02-14T22:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T21:21:26","slug":"binance-allegations-distraction-from-usaid-boko-haram-revelations-omokri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/binance-allegations-distraction-from-usaid-boko-haram-revelations-omokri","title":{"rendered":"Binance allegations distraction from USAID-Boko Haram revelations \u2013 Omokri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has dismissed the recent allegations by Tigran Gambaryan against Nigeria\u2019s National Security Adviser, NSA, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, calling them a \u2018false flag\u2019 operation designed to divert public attention from fresh claims that the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, allegedly funded Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday via his verified X account, Omokri highlighted the suspicious timing of Gambaryan\u2019s accusations, noting that they came exactly one hour after U.S. Congressman Scott Perry revealed that some American officials had been channelling funds to Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Omokri questioned why Gambaryan, a detained Binance executive, chose this moment to make his accusations despite having spent weeks in the U.S. before his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a man who has been roaming free in the United States for weeks. Why now?\u201d Omokri asked, suggesting that Gambaryan was working for foreign agencies engaged in economic sabotage against Nigeria, including facilitating the illegal outflow of $25 billion annually through Binance\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians may also recall that after Binance was delisted by the government and ceased operating in Nigeria, the naira rose sharply, appreciating by 36.4% in one day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis prompted President Tinubu to issue a statement on video praising the \u2018seismic shift\u2019 of our currency, which had gone from N1,598 to $1 on Thursday, 21 March 2024, to N1,382 to $1 the following day, Friday, 22 March 2024,\u201d Omokri noted.<\/p>\n<p>Omokri linked Gambaryan\u2019s claims to an attempt to cover up recent allegations that USAID had made multimillion-dollar annual payments to Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that these payments allegedly occurred at a time when the Obama and Biden administrations refused to sell weapons to Nigeria, suggesting a deliberate effort to weaken Nigeria\u2019s fight against terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Omokri also came to the defence of National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, describing him as an incorruptible leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalam Nuhu Ribadu is an incorruptible leader who, as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, refused a $15 million cash bribe in 2006 and instead deposited the funds at the Central Bank of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTigran Gambaryan is an allegedly corrupt economic saboteur who worked against Nigeria\u2019s economic interests for people whom Congressman Perry has now exposed as funders of terror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho should you believe? The answer is obvious. This is a pure case of corruption fighting back,\u201d Omokri concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has dismissed the recent allegations by Tigran Gambaryan against Nigeria\u2019s National Security Adviser, NSA, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, calling them a \u2018false flag\u2019 operation designed to divert public attention from fresh claims that the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, allegedly funded Boko Haram. In a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":150339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[10570,45,254,568,1372],"class_list":["post-150340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-binance","tag-boko-haram","tag-nigeria","tag-omokri","tag-usaid"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Binance allegations distraction from USAID-Boko Haram revelations \u2013 Omokri - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/binance-allegations-distraction-from-usaid-boko-haram-revelations-omokri\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Binance allegations distraction from USAID-Boko Haram revelations \u2013 Omokri\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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