US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have rejected the request to make information about President Bola Tinubu public.
Gatekeepers News reports that the FBI and CIA said Tinubu has “privacy rights that should be considered.”
The US agencies while responding to a motion by Aaron Greenspan, an American who is seeking a reconsideration of an earlier ruling, said the plaintiff is merely seeking to reargue his position on which the court has already ruled.
The law enforcement agencies asked the court to deny the plaintiff’s motion for reconsideration.
The agencies said in their response to Greenspan’s motion, “The Court properly characterized that motion as a motion for a temporary restraining order and determined that the plaintiff did not satisfy his burden of showing that he would succeed on the merits as to FOIA exemptions and irreparable injury is likely, and the balance of equities favor him or granting the motion would further the public interest because Tinubu has privacy interests that should be considered.”
Gatekeepers News reports that Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court of Columbia declined Greenspan’s request to compel US security agencies to release confidential information about Tinubu.
The judge said the request “may be of a highly sensitive and private nature” and that “the subject of those documents, Bola A. Tinubu, has had no opportunity to protect his privacy interests in any such records.”
Greenspan had accused the law enforcement agencies of violating the Freedom of Information Act by not releasing confidential information within the stipulated time.
