The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says a letter containing a death threat against a senior investigator with the Commission, Ishaku Sharu, was dropped at its head office in Abuja by unknown gunmen, who attacked it head office on Wednesday.
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The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a statement its spokesman, Wilson Uwajaren released, wherein it claimed the gunmen attacked the office and damaged vehicles in the premises.
It insinuated that powerful individuals undergoing investigation for corruption sponsored the attack, and behind the death threat.
The statement read in part: “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.
“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.
“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.
“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.”
