Southwest, Southeast and Middlebelt Leaders have rejected the nomination of Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as EFCC Chairman. In a release signed Yinka Odumakin, Chief Guy Ikoku, Senator Bassey Henshaw and Dr Isuwa Diogo, the four geo-political Zonal leaders tagged the appointment as anti-corruption deception by President Muhammadu Buhari. See full statement below :
President Muhammadu Buhari has for the second time in 6 years forwarded another nominee to the Senate for confirmation as the Chairman of EFCC.
Anti-corruption is a star programme of the President and a large part of his following is owed to the Anti-corruption propaganda on which a lot of Nigerians were sold.
But walking the talk has been a challenge for the President as his first nominee, Ibrahim Magu remained unconfirmed in almost five years because of the damming report of the DSS on him which showed he is a man that should be running from anti-graft instead of looters running for him.
As they are managing to clean up the Magu mess, he has put forward Mr Abdulraheed Bawa as a replacement.
But facts coming out about his latest nominee show that the whole Anti-corruption war is a joke that can only impress the unwary.
The anti-graft agency is said by reports to have asked Abdulrasheed Bawa to lead its field office in Lagos with effect from August 8, despite a probe of his alleged theft of confiscated proceeds of ill-gotten loot at his previous appointment in Port-Harcourt, Peoples Gazette for instance reported that
Mr. Bawa was in-charge of the Port-Harcourt zonal office last year when dozens of petrol-bearing trucks that were confiscated from suspected looters were abruptly auctioned off to his proxies at “ridiculous prices,”