The Department of State Services (DSS) has carried out a search on the Abuja home and office of the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa.
The DSS has kept Bawa for seven days now, also in the week, interrogated Bawa’s close associates in the EFCC, over alleged mismanagement, misappropriation and diversion of proceeds of sold assets forfeited to the commission.
The DSS spokesperson Peter Afunanya has refused to give any details at all “No comments.”
Bawa is being held in the custody of the DSS “Yellow House,” Abuja, is being probed for alleged financial impropriety as EFCC helmsman.
President Bola Tinubu had on June 14 suspended Bawa as EFCC chairman indefinitely, following which the DSS picked him up.
Operatives of the secret service also searched Bawa’s Gwarinpa home in Abuja on Saturday with his wife and children watching.
Bawa’s office was reportedly also searched on the same day by another set of DSS officers who came with a search warrant.
“DSS operatives stormed the EFCC Headquarters in Jabi on Saturday to search the office of the suspended chairman. But they presented a search warrant. Another set of DSS operatives also searched Bawa’s home in Gwarinpa, and they met his wife and children in the house during the search.
“Bawa’s close associates at the office were also invited for questioning this week, and they’re being probed on allegations of mismanagement, misappropriation, and diversion of proceeds forfeited assets sold under Bawa’s watch,” a DSS source revealed.
The DSS had gotten an ex-parte order to keep Bawa in detention as they continue with their investigation.
