The Economic and Financial Crime Commission has debunked the social media reports alleging that EFCC chairman Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa and former chairman of the defunct Skye Bank, Mr Tunde Ayeni, together on travel abroad on a secret mission of their own.
In an electronically signed press release submitted to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP, by the agency’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, the Commission’s attention was drawn to a so-called ‘exclusive’ news report published in It is circulating on social media that EFCC Chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa and former Chairman of the defunct Skye Bank Mr Tunde Ayeni are traveling abroad together on a secret, self-interested mission.
The statement said: “The story that tries in vain to push through a certain foul-smelling agenda is absolutely WRONG.”
Had it not been for the opportunity to confuse and confuse the unwary, the commission would have ignored the story.
However, there is an urgent need to set the facts straight.
First of all, there was never a meeting and certainly no “plan” between the EFCC Chair and Mr. Ayeni to go anywhere together.
While the EFCC Chair is currently on an approved mission abroad, Ayeni, who leaked fiction says is on a secret voyage with Mr Bawa, is right here in Nigeria, according to checks.
A cursory examination would have confirmed that.
If the goal is to get the Commission to compromise its mandate to investigate and prosecute all cases of economic and financial crime, then the purveyors of the biased story have failed. pathetic.
In any event, the Commission will only be guided by this mandate and its very clear standard operating procedure and will NOT allow itself to be blackmailed or act in any way preordained or remotely controlled by private interests.
The EFCC WILL ONLY pursue the public interest as defined in the Commission Establishment Act.
