Suspended EFCC Chairman, Abdulrashed Bawa and President Bola Tinubu
The suspended chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been in the custody of Nigeria’s domestic intelligence agency, the State Security Service (SSS), for over two months.
President Bola Tinubu suspended Mr Bawa from office on 14th June, and since then, the SSS has kept him in detention without explanations for his offences are and which law permits it to hold him for this long without charge.
On the authority of President Tinubu, the SSS has now held Mr Bawa in detention for 76 days – about two months and two weeks – without charge.
In addition, within that period, President Tinubu rewarded former Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, who was being investigated by the Bawa-led EFCC for allegedly diverting his state’s N70 billion, with a ministerial appointment. Another former governor, Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, who helped to launder late Nigeria’s kleptocratic dictator Sani Abacha’s loot, will also join Mr Matawalle in President Tinubu’s cabinet as a minister.
While the ministerial screening was going on, President Tinubu also made a push for former Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, despite his unresolved videoed bribery scandal, to become the chairperson of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr Ganduje is now the face of the change-promising party that came to power in 2015, promising to fight corruption. Watch video……
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