Abdul Rasheed Bawa, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, says corruption does fight back, adding that he has been receiving death threats since he came into office as the chairman of the anti-graft agency.
He spoke on Tuesday when he featured in Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme monitored by The PUNCH.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had in November 2016 said, “Corruption is fighting back vigorously”.
When asked on Tuesday if indeed corruption is fighting back, Bawa said, “Last week, I was in New York, as all Nigerians are aware of. A very senior citizen received a phone call from somebody that is not even under investigation. What he (the caller) said to him on phone is that; he is going to kill the EFCC chairman, the young man.
“He said, ‘I am going to kill him. I am going to kill him’. This is to tell you how bad it is. It is actually real. Corruption can fight back.”
When further asked if he meant he has been receiving death threats, the EFCC chairman said, “Yes”.
40-year-old Bawa had been named the new EFCC chairman by the president, in February 2021,in replacement of the embattled ex-acting chairman of the anti-graft commission, Ibrahim Magu.
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