The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has raised alarm over sponsored protest by a shadowy group to instigate young Nigerians, including students against the commission as a ploy to discredit its operations.
Penpushing reports that the Head, Media and Publicity of the agency Dele Oyewale made this known in a statement on Wednesday, stressing that in the last couple of days, the group has been actively campaigning in the social media, recruiting impressionable young Nigerians, to take up arms against the establishment
‘The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC wishes to alert the general public on the plan by a shadowy group to instigate a “protest” against the Commission. In the last couple of days, the group has been actively campaigning in the social media, recruiting impressionable young Nigerians, including students to take up “arms” against the EFCC’, the statement reads.
Penpushing further reports that Oyewale in the statement pointed out that this insidious campaign is being promoted as resistance to the operational activities of the commission especially in respect of the enforcement of the laws dealing with cybercrimes.
‘The Commission, while not averse to protests by citizens, is alarmed by emerging evidence that suggest a grand design by corrupt elements under investigation or prosecution by the Commission to exploit the so-called protest to orchestrate a national uprising that may threaten the peace and security of our dear nation’, it reads.
Penpushing also reports that he stated that as a responsible law enforcement organisation, the commission will not tolerate any breakdown of law and order anywhere in the country especially around its office locations across Nigeria.
The statement disclosed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is working in concert with sister security agencies, and is therefore taking necessary measures to deal with possible threats to the peace and security of Nigeria.
‘The Commission, however, appeals to parents, guardians and heads of tertiary institutions to take responsibility in ensuring that their wards are not recruited to be used as cannon fodder in a proxy war against the Commission by vested corrupt interests’, Oyewale wrote.
‘The war being waged by the Commission against corruption and cybercrime is to protect the future of the youth of this country. That future is imperiled if Nigeria degenerates further in global reckoning as a den of fraudsters’, the statement emphasized
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