The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has assured the
public and a group of protesters of its fairness and readiness to attend
to all issues referred to it without any delay.
This was disclosed in a press release issued by the commission’s head of media and publicity, Wilson Ujuwaren in Abuja.
The
assurance was given on Thursday by the South-South Zonal Head of Public
Affairs of the Commission, Mr. Oladele Oyewale while receiving some
women protesters who thronged the South-South Zonal Office of the EFCC
in Port Harcourt.
The
women, numbering about 100, stormed the EFCC’s office chanting various
songs and carrying different placards and banners with inscriptions
bearing their grievances.
The
main thrust of their grievances was that the ‘’EFCC should release the
$15million Patience Jonathan’s money without delay’’. Some inscriptions
on the banners are: ‘’Please, EFCC, the malady of Mrs Patience Jonathan
is of great concern to us, come to our aid in Allah’s name”; ‘’Leave our
mother alone”; “Mr Chairman Sir, (EFCC) pls fight corruption with
love”; “Leave Ex-president wife alone”; “Magu, unfreeze Mrs Patience
Jonathan Account”, among others.
Leader
of the protesters, High Chief Rita N. Onwunali Adandigbo, said that her
group, Voice of Niger Delta Women, supported the corruption agenda of
President Muhammadu Buhari but was in the EFCC to express its worry over
the “deteriorating health situation of Mrs Patience Jonathan owing to
the non-release of her money by the EFCC”.
Responding,
Oyewale assured the group that their grievances would be looked into
promptly and objectively. “We will report your grievances to the Ag.
Executive chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu and he will carefully look into it.
We will report everything you have said to him and actions will be
taken accordingly” he said.
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