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Ohanaeze Group to EFCC Chair: Step aside from your position, face probe

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"lxuynip1" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The Ohanaeze Youths Group has called on Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission &lpar;EFCC&rpar;&comma; Abdulrasheed Bawa to step aside from his position and face probe over corruption allegations against him&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"ATegfukp" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>National President of the group&comma; known as&comma; Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide Mazi Okwu Nnabuike disclosed this in a statement released on Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the group has in the past couple of days&comma; watched with dismay the drift currently going on at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&comma; EFCC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Needless to say that we are not so surprised owing to the fact that in the not so distant past&comma; we had raised the alarm that the EFCC czar&comma; Abdulrasheed Bawa&comma; was merchandising the anti-graft commission&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"AdTIxIf6" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This came to the fore when he unleashed the commission on Senator Ike Ekweremadu&comma; a victim of circumstance&comma; who was then facing charges in the United Kingdom&period; The EFCC under Bawa has never charged Ekweremadu for any crime&comma; but while the lawmaker was in far away UK&comma; he rushed and misled a Nigerian court to confiscate all his properties&period; Thank God that the court later reversed itself&period; This is just one of the major unholy and sponsored jobs of the EFCC under Bawa&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to the group&comma; in the history of the EFCC&comma; no chairman of the commission has ever come under public scrutiny in such a short period of time like Bawa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Since the Zamfara State governor&comma; Bello Matawalle’s recent outburst exposing corrupt practices against the Abdulrasheed Bawa&comma; more damning allegations also crept up that some of the Commission’s officials simply negotiate with suspects&comma; get assets and cash retrieved and do plea bargains&period; This opens limitless opportunities for corrupt bargaining and self-enrichment by the operatives of EFCC under Bawa’s watch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are also aware that EFCC is undertaking a selective invitation to outgoing Governors in Nigeria while exempting other government officials who have loads of petitions against them&comma; while also being unable to deal with the corruption going on within its own workforce&comma;” the group said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apart from the corruption fight taking a nosedive under Bawa&comma; it is also no longer news that the EFCC under him has totally become a tool for political witch hunt&comma; it is now merely being used to settle political scores&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Based on the foregoing&comma; it is time for Bawa to pack his luggages and step aside as the Chairman of the EFCC&period; We even expected that he should have resigned on his own volition judging by some weighty allegations against him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;However&comma; since he is obstinate about towing the path of honour&comma; we advise President Muhammadu Buhari to do the needful by purging his government of all the ridicule brought upon his avowed anti-corruption stance by Bawa and the EFCC under him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We insist that all allegations must be thoroughly investigated by a technical Commission of Inquiry to dig into the modus operandi of EFCC investigations in the last three years by thoroughly analysing records of arrests&comma; investigations&comma; outcomes and final closure of each incident and individual suspects and how the matters were eventually dispensed with&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But should Buhari fail to do so&comma; the President-elect&comma; Bola Ahmed Tinubu should consider it as one of his very first assignments- to make Bawa step aside and face investigation&period; This is the only way Nigerians would rekindle their hope on the anti-graft commission&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; 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