Give EFCC Chairman Maximum Protection, HURIWA To Buhari

Posted by Eric Ojo Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Wednesday, June 16th, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A frontline Civil Rights Advocacy Group, Human Rights Writer Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has urged the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Mohammadu Buhari to ensure that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa is given adequate protection.

The EFCC chairman had recently raised an alarm that he has been getting death threats as corruption is already fighting back. He disclosed this while speaking as a guest at the Sunrise Daily programme on Channels Television.

HURIWA therefore warned that nothing untoward or sinister should happen to the anti-graft Czar and called on the President to extend the best protection available humanly speaking to his trusted appointee who seems to have started well, so his adversaries will not put him in the way of harm or danger.

“If anything happens to him, then it will be well known that forced embedded within the administration are the key suspects given the unprecedented quantum of sophiscated and crude economic crimes and corruption that have eroded the few gains made by the 6 year old administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“So it is in the self -enlightened interest of President Muhammadu Buhari that Abdulrasheed Bawa and other officers of the EFCC are protected from any sort of sinister violent plot”, the group said.

The association noted that the appointment of the youngster as the substantive Chairman of EFCC could be a fresh breath into the increasingly waning and ethically diminished anti-graft crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

“Seeing his refreshing youthfulness and his expressed or vocalised zeal to battle relentlessly the hydra-headed monster of economic crimes especially amongst top flight government officials, we are hereby expressing our solidarity with the Chairman of EFCC”, the group added in a statement jointly signed by its National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and Zainab Yusuf, the Director of media nationwide.

HURIWA further noted that President Buhari should see the protection of the chairman and members of the EFCC as a task that he must carry out because of the fact that if and only if their duty is properly implemented, it could ensure that Nigeria’s economy does not collapse under the heavy weight of “systemic and systematic, institutional and bureaucratic corruption tearing down the existential fabrics of the Nigerian State”.

“HURIWA is calling on patriots to speak out. We are calling on credible Civil Rights leaders to speak out to put pressure on both the EFCC Chairman and President Muhammadu Buhari to name, shame, prosecute and punish the particular identifiable man that the EFCC chairman said made a call and threatened to kill him. In the last five years, life has become very cheap in Nigeria and mass killers are roaming freely even within the corridors of power in Abuja and nothing is happening. The early warning by Abdulrasheed Bawa should not be treated the usual fire Brigade approach whereby government would wait until the threat is executed before running around trying to spread propaganda”, the association stressed.