The offices of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 attacked by unknown gunmen.
The spokesperson for the EFCC Wilson Uwujaren in a statement said the gunmen invaded the EFCC headquarters in Wuse Zone 7 at about 5 am.
The Commission said the gunmen dropped a death threat to one of its officers.
According to the EFCC spokesperson: “The group of heavily armed bandits invaded the office at about 05.00 hours and began shooting into the premises, damaging vehicles parked in the premises in the process. However, the attack was repelled by guards on duty.”
The hoodlums escaped in a getaway vehicle but not without leaving a message; a white envelope dropped by the fleeing attackers was found to contain a death threat addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the Commission.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that Ishaku who heads the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Fraud Section is in charge of corruption investigation involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass hats.
According to the EFCC, the attack on the Zone 7 office which houses the Commission’s AMCON Desk, Procurement Fraud and Foreign Exchange Malpractices Sections, is coming few weeks after another investigator, Austin Okwor was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The EFCC spokesperson said the latest incident has already been reported to the police for further investigations.