Some gunmen attacked the head office of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) in Abuja on Wednesday.
Wilson Uwajaren, spokesman of the commission,
who disclosed this in a statement hours after
the incident, said the gunmen left a death note
for one of the anti-graft agency’s detectives.
He disclosed that the intruders could not make
their way into the complex because security
guards on duty repelled them.
“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,” he said.
“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. 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.
“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.”
Uwujaren added that the incident had already
been reported to the police for investigation.