EFCC Pleads With Nigerians, Confirms Corruption Among Officials

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Wednesday noted that some of its officials are corrupt.

The head of the commission in Lagos State, Abdulrasheed Bawa disclosed that officials of the anti-graft agency caught involved in corrupt practices are prosecuted.

Bawa revealed this while speaking on TVC news programme, ‘Your View’.

He called on Nigerians to help identify corrupt officials of the commission.

“Certainly, we are not angels. There are some bad elements within the system. But we charge them to court whenever they are caught.”

“We need Nigerians to help us call out any corrupt EFCC official they come across,” Bawa said.

In related story, a businessman identified as Donald Wokoma of Damijay Integrated Services Limited played a tape recording before the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential Probe Panel on how some operatives of EFCC), under the leadership of the suspended acting Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu, used a lawyer to demand bribery of N75m to be paid into different accounts.