Leaked List of High-profile Individuals Under Probe Troubling Us – EFCC

Leaked List of High-profile Individuals Under Probe Troubling Us – EFCC


Leaked List of High-profile Individuals Under Probe Troubling Us – EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said
that the leaked names of high-profile individuals under investigation has done damage to its work. Reacting to the reports, Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC, said the information was not leaked by the anti-graft agency. He said the leak had done damage to the commission’s investigation because most of the cases were still at the preliminary stage.“It is important to state that this report did not emanate from the EFCC and the allusion to ‘an EFCC source’ is diversionary and mischievous,” he said. Akpabio, CJN, Okonjo-Iweala, 21 Other High-profile Persons Under EFCC Probe.
“For the avoidance of doubt, cases under investigation communicated to the office of the attorney-general of the federation by the commission are classified information and it is troubling how such would be leaked to the media.” He also said the commission was not investigating Onnoghen and Abdul Kafarati, a justice of the federal high court.“The mastermind of this leak is out to create disaffection between the commission and, particularly, the judiciary. The commission wishes to state categorically that it is currently not investigating Justices Onnoghen and Kafarati,” he said. in the list, Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria; Okonjo-Iweala, former finance minister; Kayode Fayemi, minister of solid minerals, and Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti state governor, are some of those under investigation by the commission.
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