Public Officials Stocking Old Notes To Buy Votes – EFCC Chair

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa on Wednesday claimed that some public servants are planning to buy votes during the general elections.

Bawa in an interview on Channels TV said its officers have been deployed to monitor the elections across the country.

The EFCC Chairman appealed to Nigerians to report vote buying, selling, or other evidence of financial malpractices.

He said, “We have an intel that a lot of politicians have bought some items that they will use to buy votes in kind and not in cash. But we are prepared for any situation and will not hesitate to anyone caught in the act. We will watch out for all these things on election day.

“I don’t want to say only governors are hoarding naira notes, there are public servants out there doing the same thing or some businessmen with questionable characters are still having these funds in their homes. So, I don’t want to say governors are these but I will say that public servants, either retired or serving and some businessmen with questionable characters are on our radar.

“The biggest hurdle is if Nigerians don’t buy into what we are doing but I believe once we are united, we would be able to take inadequacies out of our system.”