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Information Leakage Is Hampering Our Activities, EFCC Complains

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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has lamented that information leakage is hampering its investigative activities.

The anti-corruption agency said: “indeed, much damage has been done to the Commission’s investigation activities by this leak, especially as some of the cases mentioned are still at preliminary stages of investigation.”

In a statement today, Wednesday, by its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC said that the report that is making the round that Chief Judge of Nigeria, Ex minister of finance, Okonjo-Iweala; current solid mineral minister, John Fayemi; Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, Others, did not emanate from the Commission.

The news, the statement said, appeared in The Punch Newspaper of today, Wednesday September 6, 2017 and it had to do with “a list of high profile persons, including the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, former Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Kayode Fayemi and Justice Abdu Kafarati of the Federal High Court, who are  said to be currently under investigation by the Commission.”

According to the newspaper, “The list, sighted by one of our correspondents via an EFCC source on Monday, was recently sent by the anti-graft agency to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), based on request.

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The Commission said that the allusion to “an EFCC source” is diversionary and mischievous, adding: “for the avoidance of doubt, cases under investigation communicated to the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation by the Commission are classified information and it is troubling how such would be leaked to the media.

“The mastermind of this leak is out to create disaffection between the Commission and, particularly, the Judiciary. The Commission wishes to state categorically that it is currently not investigating Justices Onnoghen and Kafarati.

“While Onnoghen was being considered for his present position, the Commission received some petitions which were investigated and found to be without merit and discarded.” [myad]