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    The letter is a response to an invitation from the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission regarding funds received from the Office of the National Security Adviser. The letter explains that the funds were compensation payments for damages suffered in terrorist attacks by Boko Haram, including the bombing of THISDAY newspaper offices in 2012 which destroyed printing equipment worth over 2.5 billion naira. It details two payments totaling 350 million naira in 2014 and 120 million naira in 2015 to compensate for losses from the 2012 attack and a later incident where soldiers seized newspapers. The chairman agrees to meet with the Commission in Nigeria to provide further information about the compensation payments if required.

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    The letter is a response to an invitation from the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission regarding funds received from the Office of the National Security Adviser. The letter explains that the funds were compensation payments for damages suffered in terrorist attacks by Boko Haram, including the bombing of THISDAY newspaper offices in 2012 which destroyed printing equipment worth over 2.5 billion naira. It details two payments totaling 350 million naira in 2014 and 120 million naira in 2015 to compensate for losses from the 2012 attack and a later incident where soldiers seized newspapers. The chairman agrees to meet with the Commission in Nigeria to provide further information about the compensation payments if required.

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    The letter is a response to an invitation from the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission regarding funds received from the Office of the National Security Adviser. The letter explains that the funds were compensation payments for damages suffered in terrorist attacks by Boko Haram, including the bombing of THISDAY newspaper offices in 2012 which destroyed printing equipment worth over 2.5 billion naira. It details two payments totaling 350 million naira in 2014 and 120 million naira in 2015 to compensate for losses from the 2012 attack and a later incident where soldiers seized newspapers. The chairman agrees to meet with the Commission in Nigeria to provide further information about the compensation payments if required.

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    December 09, 2015.

    The Executive Chairman,


    The Economic & Financial Crimes C omission,
    5, Fomella Street, Wuse 11,
    Abuja, Nigeria.
    Attention: OLAOLU ADEGBITE, MFR.
    RE: LETTER OF INVITATION.
    Please refer to your letter of invitation dated 8th November 2015, which was received in our
    Abuja Office on the 8th of December 2015.
    I am currently in the United States of America on my way back to Nigeria to honour your
    invitation, but I feel it necessary to make the following statements prior to my arrival in
    Nigeria:
    1. We have never received any suspicious funds from the Office of the National Security
    Adviser. ALL funds received from the Office of the National Security
    Adviser were PAYMENTS for COMPENSATION to MITIGATE the following:
    1.1.

    N150,000,000 + N150,000,000 and N250,000,000 respectively received


    in August, November and February 2014 as compensation to mitigate
    the dastardly Boko Haram twin bombings of the THISDAY NEWSPAPERS offices
    in Abuja and Kaduna on Thursday April 26, 2012, during which 4 innocent
    Nigerian lives were lost, our buildings destroyed and we lost full colour
    Goss printing towers and three (3) pre-press Computer-To-Plate and
    anxiliary equipments and other (in)valuable property valued at over N2.5
    BILLION. This is aside from daily costs to pay 3rd party printers of over
    N1 Billion having lost our printing facility to terrorist due to inadequate
    protection by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The bombing of THISDAY
    offices followed the Abuja United Nations Building bombing for which the
    Federal Government has so far spent N3 Billion for reconstruction and much
    more earmarked for furnishing;

    1.2. N100,000,000 and N20,000,000 received in March 2015 for The


    Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and 12 newspapers who demanded
    compensation for the brutal and unlawful seizure of newspapers and stoppage of circulation
    by armed soldiers in Abuja and several cities. As President of the NPAN, it was my duty to
    lead media leaders to hold discussions with President Goodluck Jonathan to avert a class
    action lawsuit against the Armed Forces and the Federal Government of Nigeria.
    2. On both occasions, President Jonathan said he did not wish to lay precedence and in
    our case, he specifically said there were many victims of Boko Haram. I had to

    confront President Jonathan on the issue when I learnt of approvals for the
    reconstruction of the Abuja United Nations Building, since we were the second major
    organisation to be attacked by Boko Haram after the UN attack. He therefore directed
    me to meet the National Security Adviser who processed the 3 payments in question.
    Please find attached a copy of our letter to President Jonathan as well as correspondence
    with the then NSA on the Newspapers' payment. I will be make my way to Nigeria to meet
    with you should you require further information.
    Thank you.
    Nduka Obaigbena
    Chairman & Editor-in-Chief,
    THISDAY NEWSPAPERS GROUP.

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