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The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC has uncovered a plot to
smear the image of the anti-graft agency
and its officials especially its
Executive Chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri
through series of blackmail publications
funded by some sacked bank executives
who are now being prosecuted in court.
The plot which is being coordinated by a
former top official of the Commission
who equally has a pending criminal case
against him, was hatched at a meeting in
Abuja on Thursday January 14 between the
former staff and a senior editorial
staff of a Lagos based relatively new
weekly newspaper to be used to kick
start their campaign of calumny this
week.
The Commission therefore wishes to alert
the public about this evil agenda and
assure all, especially the sponsors and
executors of this campaign of falsehood
that no amount of smear campaign will
deter or distract the anti-graft agency
and its officials from their commitment
to the prosecution of those found to
have breached the law.
There is also the need to emphasize that
the active involvement of the former
staff does not confer any credibility on
their campaign and will equally not stop
the Commission from pressing criminal
charges against him when investigation
into his case is completed.
The noble men of the pen profession are
therefore urged to investigate and
verify information passed to them by
this gang as their sole aim is purely
blackmail and vengeance.
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