The campaign to remove Abdulrasheed Bawa as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC, due to allegations of politicization of the organization, disobedience of court orders, and violation of Nigerians’ human rights, among other things, has been relaunched by no fewer than 130 frontline anti-corruption civil society organizations, or CSOs. Joined by 20 Constitutional lawyers led by …

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa has said that some politicians are planning to buy votes by distributing items instead of cash. On a Channels Television interview on Wednesday, Bawa said that the anti-graft agency was ready to arrest those caught buying votes during Saturday’s polls. Ahead of the general elections, stakeholders have …

More than 120 anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), on Friday, held a massive town hall meeting in Lagos to round off their week-long protest against what they called “politicisation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), disobedience of court orders and infringement on human rights of Nigerians” under the leadership of its chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa. The protesters, who …

More than 40 anti-corruption civil society organisations have expressed outrage over what they called the “continued disobedience of court orders” by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), under Abdulrasheed Bawa. They also complained about the “politicisation of the agency’s operations”. The anti-corruption CSOs alleged on Friday at a gathering in Lagos that the EFCC had chosen to become an institution …

A Lagos-based lawyer, Festus Ogun has asked the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa to obey the court order that committed him to prison. Ogun said nobody was above the law, especially public officers who swore oaths of allegiance to defend and uphold the Constitution. On Tuesday, Justice Chizoba Oji of a High Court of …

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa has been convicted for contempt of court by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, Abuja. The ruling is in relation to his agency’s failure to comply with an earlier order of the court, which was in favour of a former Director of …

Business magnate, Dr Tunde Ayeni, has debunked reports on some news sites that he was in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate to hold meeting with the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa. The reports had claimed that the purported meeting was to promote what was described as Ayeni’s “2023 political interests”. A statement by Ayeni’s …