Gunmen storm EFCC, leave death threat for detective

Gunmen yesterday attacked office of the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja, leaving a death note for one of the anti-graft agency’s detectives.

A press statement by the Commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwajaren, said the gunmen could not make their way into the complex because security guards on duty repelled them.

The statement read in part: “A major security breach was recorded at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the early hours of Wednesday, August 16, 2017, as unknown gunmen attacked the office located at Wuse, Zone 7, Abuja.

“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 get-away 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.”

The attack on the 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 spokesperson said 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.

Uwujaren further stated that the incident had already been reported to the police for investigation.

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