EFCC Boss, Abdulrasheed Bawa
The Northern Youths Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has asked the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, to reveal the identity of the minister and Managing Director of a bank whom he said were involved in a $37.5 million money laundering.
The NYCN on Wednesday in a statement said Bawa should be transparent to state the names of the personalities involved or humbly resign.
Bawa had in an interview on Channels Television on Tuesday, said, “We investigated a matter in which a bank MD marketed property to a minister and agreed to purchase it at $37.5 million. The bank then sent a vehicle to her house to evacuate $20 million from her house in the first instance.”
The NYCN’s spokesman, Samuel Kure, said it was safe to conclude that EFCC was thorough with its investigation of the matter, adding that “sadly, the said minister and the bank MD are yet to be arraigned in any court of competent jurisdiction.”
He said, “The NYCN has noted this as a deliberate attempt by the EFCC to conceal the identity of the thieves of our commonwealth. If the EFCC can speedily parade suspected Yahoo boys and girls (Internet fraudsters), why is the case of these characters different?
“The inability of the EFCC to disclose their identity shows that either some people are more powerful than the EFCC or there are some powerful individuals who planted the EFCC boss and are teleguiding him on who to parade or not.
“Either way, this amounts to a betrayal of trust of Nigerians and Mr. President that appointed him to handle one of the focal points that led to the election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015 and its re-election in 2019.
“The Northern Youths Council also noted the concerns raised by the EFCC (chairman) wherein he stated that some people are after his life. We want to assure him that Northern Youths will stand with him and do everything to protect him, even if it means providing a human shield for him in all his outings provided that he puts the interest of over 200 million Nigerians above the microscopic few that have access to our common patrimony.
“In the event that the EFCC feels he can’t name and shame the bank MD and the minister involved, we call on him to humbly resign and leave the stage for a more serious and fearless person to take over the wheel.
“Until the identity of the minister is made public, Nigerians will continue to see every female minister serving in the present regime as operator of ‘House Vault’ that are out for self-aggrandisement.
