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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has debunked reports that its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, visit to the office of the Chief Judge of Lagos State, Hon. Justice Kazeem Alogba, was in connectiom to any trial but “a routine courtesy call”.
This was against reports that the visit was shortly after the EFCC Chairman’s cross-examination in a N1.7 billion trial of the Managing Director of Nadabo Energy Limited, Abubakar Ali Peters, on 31st March, 2022.
In a statement by the Commission’s Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC condemned the publicatiion of Thisday Newspaper of Tuesday April 19, 2022,
The statement, dated April 19, reads: “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has drawn to a story captioned, Controversy Trails EFCC Chairman’s Visit to Lagos CJ, which appeared in Thisday Newspaper of Tuesday April 19, 2022.
“Thus, the visit by the EFCC Chairman to the chief Judge of the state was a routine courtesy call which should not be exploited by mischief makers to fan the embers of disaffection between the Commission and members of the Bench.
“The Commission also frowns at the obvious design to draw a non-existent nexus between the visit and the ongoing case where Bawa has been in the witness box for over 5 years.”