A statement on Thursdays by the spokesman of the Commission Wilson Uwujaren said Magu has commenced a massive clean-up of the agency with the arrest of some officers allegedly involved in unauthorized leakages of official information and causing damaging reports based on false information to be published against the Commission by bloggers.
Uwujaren said the action of the officers is prejudicial to discipline and violates their oath of allegiance to the Commission.
Without stating their names the EFCC statement said those already in custody include a management staff of the rank of director, some senior and lower cadre officers, including a former senior operative who was dismissed for corruption and involvement in cult activities.
In recent times, the EFCC has been at the receiving end of negative reports by bloggers and mainstream media, targeting its leadership. The malicious reports have done untold damage to the reputation of the Commission, Uwujaren added.
He explained that available facts indicate that the staffers, who operated as a syndicate, were desperately projecting the management staff to take over the leadership of the Commission while attacking the integrity, professionalism and reputation of the EFCC.
“The management staff is believed to have rallied the others into the plot with the promise that he would see to the exit of all Police officers (including those who recruited him) from the Commission, once he ascended “the throne”, as Executive Chairman,” Uwujaren stated.
While noting that the investigation is still ongoing with possibility of more arrests in the coming days, he said also in focus of the discreet investigators, are staffs against who allegations of corruption have been made by members of the public.
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