Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council International has demanded that EFCC chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa be dismissed, saying the agency has become a political witchhunt under him.
Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the National President of the Igbo organisation, issued the appeal on Sunday.
He called because the EFCC was losing credibility.
Okwu stated the Igbo faction was not surprised because Bawa was corrupted earlier.
He stated, “This came to the fore when he unleashed the commission on Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a victim of circumstance, who was then facing charges in the UK.
“While Ekweremadu was in the UK, Bawa raced and persuaded a Nigerian court to confiscate all his properties. Thank God the court reversed. One of Bawa’s EFCC’s most evil and sponsored jobs.
“No EFCC chairman has ever come under public scrutiny like Bawa in such a short time. Like father, like son, applies to many of his subordinates.
“Two staff employees killed a coworker while battling for displays a few days ago. The commission is unclean.
“Apart from the corruption battle taking a nosedive under Bawa, it is also no longer news that the EFCC under him has entirely become an instrument for political witchhunt, it is now solely being used to settle political scores.”
“Based on the foregoing, it is time for Bawa to pack his luggages and move down as EFCC Chairman,” Okwu remarked. Given his serious claims, we expected him to quit on his own.
However, since he is not ready to toe the path of honour, we advise President Muhammadu Buhari to purge his government of all the ridicule brought upon his proclaimed anti-corruption stance by Bawa and the EFCC under him.
If Buhari fails, President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu should order Bawa to step aside and face investigation as one of his first tasks. Nigerians can only hope for the anti-graft commission this way.”
