The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has put down opposition to his leadership to alleged schemes and contrivance to get him sacked by the incoming administration of President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Bawa is facing trouble from some Civil Society Organisations, who are calling for his sack on alleged disobedience of court orders, engaging in media trials of suspects and human rights abuse.
In an interview with Daily Trust, the anti-graft czar said the motive behind the CSOs’ exertion against him was to indirectly entreat the incoming government to sack him.
His actual words, “It is on record that I am the first sitting EFCC chairman to go to court and testify, not once, not twice or three times. We now have some group of people that were paid, we know the people that are paying them, coming up with all sorts of gang-ups.
“We are following due process and the rule of law. The court had made a pronouncement, we have appealed that, and there is a stay of execution, what do you expect? We move on!
“How many of our cases were lost? We lost 41 and we got 3,785. What is there? What are we talking about? Who is losing? Who is not losing? Nobody is losing and nobody is winning. But it is like that!
“It happened in 2007, it happened in 2011, it happened in 2015, it happened in 2019 and it is happening in 2023. We’re students of history.
“People are just trying to tell the incoming government that they need to change the chairman, maybe because the chairman is doing the right things. It is just a question of corruption fighting back. Nothing more!”
