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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UUI2R-sSewOCFB356gm6GggNjFtuKFPHntr5ycNqfuvKorU8APBFVPz8HvYVy4uze3et0NpcS_2OjHIVV9yuMhvmu6kasbgVQL62x2L3uzil0pOxeaauRIVyqdU6nl6yI7c3SxIgQJc/s1600/xcsf7jhu75_efcc_308959547.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UUI2R-sSewOCFB356gm6GggNjFtuKFPHntr5ycNqfuvKorU8APBFVPz8HvYVy4uze3et0NpcS_2OjHIVV9yuMhvmu6kasbgVQL62x2L3uzil0pOxeaauRIVyqdU6nl6yI7c3SxIgQJc/s400/xcsf7jhu75_efcc_308959547.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Unidentified gunmen attacked the head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja on Wednesday.<br /><br />Wilson Uwajaren, spokesman of the commission made this disclosure in a statement after the incident.<br /><br />He also added that the gunmen left a death note for one of the anti-graft agency’s detectives, while also disclosing that the intruders could not gain access into the complex because security guards on duty repelled them.<br /><br />“A major security breach was recorded at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the early hours of Wednesday, August 16, 2017, as unknown gunmen attacked the office located at Wuse Zone 7, Abuja,” he said.<br /><br /><br />“The group of heavily armed bandits invaded the office at about 05.00 hours and began shooting into the premises, damaging vehicles parked in the premises in the process. However, the attack was repelled by guards on duty.<br /><br /><br />“The hoodlums escaped in a getaway vehicle but not without leaving a message; a white envelope dropped by the fleeing attackers was found to contain a death threat addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the commission. Ishaku who heads the foreign exchange malpractices fraud section is in charge of corruption investigation involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass hats.<br /><br /><br />“The attack on the zone 7 office which houses the commission’s AMCON desk, procurement fraud and foreign exchange malpractices sections, is coming few weeks after another investigator, Austin Okwor was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.”</div>

Local News News Africa Unidentified gunmen attacked the head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja

Unidentified gunmen attacked the head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja on Wednesday. Wilson Uwajaren, ...