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The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has unequivocally condemned the attack by unidentified gunmen on the Headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja on Wednesday morning.
The EFCC office located at Wuse Zone 7, Abuja was said to have been attacked by a group of heavily armed bandits who invaded the office at about 05.00 hours and began shooting into the premises, damaging vehicles parked in the premises in the process.
Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson of the commission in a statement said that, the attack was however repelled by guards on duty, while the hoodlums escaped in a getaway vehicle but not without leaving a message; which was “a white envelope dropped by the fleeing attackers and found to contain a death threat addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the Commission. Ishaku who heads the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Fraud Section is in charge of corruption investigation involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass hats.
“The attack on the Zone 7 office which houses the Commission’s AMCON Desk, Procurement Fraud and Foreign Exchange Malpractices Sections, is coming few weeks after another investigation. Austin Okwor was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State”, the EFCC had said.
Debo Adeniran, the Executive Chairman of CACOL who condemned the attack with serious vehemence, said that the Federal Government must not, under any circumstance allow its anti-corruption agenda to be derailed and should not submit to the intimidation of pro-corruption elements.
The forces of retrogression; agents of pro-corruption have obviously become extremely desperate in their fight-back against the present anti-corruption drive by abandoning the hitherto covert methods they have been using to frustrate the anti-graft efforts for violent and boldfaced confrontations.
