The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed that a former governor and two former ministers are the sponsors of a series of protests against the agency.
The spokesperson of the commission, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, during a press briefing organised by the Strategic Communications Inter-Agency Policy Committee (SCIPC) from the Office of the National Security Adviser.
The commission also told parents and guardians to stop their children from joining protests on matters they knew nothing about, while also calling on all heads of institutions to ensure their students didn’t join.
The EFCC vowed that it would continue to do its work no matter whose ox was gored, adding that it was already working in concert with sister security agencies to deal with possible threats to the peace and security of Nigeria.
Oyewale said, “Generally and holistically, all of these people who are talking about the ‘end EFCC, don’t end EFCC, kill EFCC, don’t kill EFCC’, they are people who are tangentially affected by the activities of the commission.
“If you have a commission like the EFCC, you are not receiving some kind of an attack, it either means that we are not effective or the public is not concerned about what we are doing.
“So, we know that, yes, our activities are affecting people that have one thing or the other to hide, and we know that it’s natural that they want to fight us.
“And that’s why we came out publicly to say that tomorrow, the planned protests, what they have said is not what they mean. And we have a responsibility to tell the public.”
