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

<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>

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

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Sierra Leone mudslides: Assistance needed urgently - president

<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/AVvXsEgInUzuZtur4VpLMsTn89y5GhcSaf04yh4UJd-URvnIFpomuz1am5Lyg8psDEZPBYTL6n6mEtJTyO64RDMmwi_D3oXUcES5cLIbiJfwFHbDhgIsNL2uKRXJNcKQ1oT5JtaDK79aqIJ4SGw/s1600/000_RK68W-1024x568.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="1024" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgInUzuZtur4VpLMsTn89y5GhcSaf04yh4UJd-URvnIFpomuz1am5Lyg8psDEZPBYTL6n6mEtJTyO64RDMmwi_D3oXUcES5cLIbiJfwFHbDhgIsNL2uKRXJNcKQ1oT5JtaDK79aqIJ4SGw/s400/000_RK68W-1024x568.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="story-body__introduction" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Sierra Leone needs "urgent support" now for thousands of people hit by mudslides and massive flooding in the capital, the country's president says.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 19px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ernest Bai Koroma said entire communities had been wiped out and that the "devastation was overwhelming us".</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">More than 300 people have been killed and a mass burial of victims is planned to free up space in mortuaries.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Efforts to recover more people from the muddy rubble that swept through the Regent area are continuing.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">The Red Cross said it was struggling to get equipment in to extricate bodies that were buried deep in the mud.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Homes in Freetown were engulfed after part of Sugar Loaf mountain collapsed following heavy rain early on Monday.</div><div data-xp="1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Many victims were still asleep in their beds when disaster struck.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">It is feared the number of dead will rise further. Another 3,000 people are estimated to have lost their homes.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Ishmael Charles, a charity worker for the Healey Relief Foundation and Caritas Freetown, told the BBC words could not do justice to the scale of the tragedy.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"You will see a huge number of people crying with those who have lost their family members," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"It's very difficult to paint what the reality looks like, because it's more scary and very sad and disastrous than anyone can be able to describe."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">In the worst hit area, the Regent district, where dozens of houses were submerged when the hillside collapsed at about 06:00 GMT, those who survived spoke of the family members they had lost - or still hoped to find alive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"My wife is dead. My children are all dead. This morning my children and I talked before I left for work. One of them even chose the socks I should put on," a man called Malikie told the BBC.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Another woman, called Adama, said she was still searching for her baby.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"We were inside. We heard the mudslide approaching. We were trying to flee. I attempted to grab my baby but the mud was too fast. She was covered, alive.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"I have not seen my husband, Alhaji. My baby was just seven weeks old."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">International aid agency Save the Children said one member of staff, along with his children, had disappeared.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">His colleague Ramatu Jalloh was driving past Regent at the same time that the wall of mud and debris hit the area.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"A lady ran on to the road and started gesticulating wildly," he said. "She called out to another lady who had been riding a bike in front of us who, after a brief conversation, started crying and looked very upset," she said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"It was clear from their reactions that something terrible had happened. Soon afterwards, another man ran towards our car. He was crying about the number of lives that had been lost."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Red Cross spokesman Patrick Massaquoi told AFP news agency that 312 people were confirmed dead.</div><figure class="media-landscape has-caption full-width" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span class="image-and-copyright-container" style="border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); display: block;"><img alt="People inspect the damage after a mudslide in the mountain town of Regent, Sierra Leone August 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break-word;">Fatmata Sesay, who lives on the hilltop area of Juba, managed to survive the mudslide after she and her family were woken by the pounding rain.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">It was then they realised their home was submerged in water.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"I only managed to escape by climbing to the roof of the house when neighbours came in to rescue me," she told AFP.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"We have lost everything and we do not have a place to sleep."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Earlier, President Koroma urged people to stay away from the affected areas.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"This tragedy of great magnitude has once again challenged us to come together, to stand by each other and to help one another," he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 16px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">"Let me assure you that my government is fully engaged on this situation and in collaboration with our development partners we have already established an emergency response centre at Regent to coordinate our response and to provide relief to the survivors."</div><figure class="media-with-caption" style="background-color: #111111; border: 0px none rgb(64, 64, 64); color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, sans-serif-light, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div 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