Abdul Rasheed Bawa, Ex-EFCC Boss, Coughs-Out N.5b
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Mr. Abdul Rasheed Bawa, former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC
The intelligence arm of the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, the Department of State Services (DSS), has reportedly recovered about half a billion naira, (N580 million) from the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa.
Bawa has been cooling his feet in DSS custody since June 2023, when he was removed from office by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu .
Reliable sources said that the former EFCC chairman had coughed out the said sum believed to have been illegally acquired when in office as the head of the agency.
The sources reported that the DSS dropped the snippet amid pressure to either release Bawa or charge him to court with offenses the secret police’s investigation might have found Bawa culpable.
Recalled that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu suspended Bawa indefinitely as the chairman of the EFCC in June, “to allow for proper investigation into his conduct while in office,” following “weighty allegation of abuse of office leveled against him”.
Bawa was taken into custody by the DSS on 14th June 2023, shortly after his suspension by the president, and has since remained in detention.
In August, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) threatened to sue President Tinubu’s administration over the continued detention of Bawa by the DSS without proper charges and arraignment in the court of justice.
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