The EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa has been given a "tell or resign" ultimatum.
This followed a revelation by Bawa, during an interview on Channels Television, that the Commission recently investigated a matter in which a bank Managing Director sold a property to a minister for $37.5m. The bank then sent a vehicle to the minister's house to evacuate the sum of $20m in the first instance.
A group known as the Northern Youths Council of Nigeria, NYCN, are now challenging Bawa provide the names of the parties involve in the said case or resign his appointment.
The group said until the identity of the said minister is made public, Nigerians would continue to see every female minister serving in the present regime as an operator of “House Vault”, out for self-aggrandizement, adding that to salvage the reputation of other female ministers that are selflessly working for the betterment of Nigeria, the EFCC should disclose the identity of the suspect.
In a statement signed by its spokesman, Samuel Kure, the group said it was safe to assume that the EFCC was thorough with its investigation of the matter and wondered why the said Minister and the bank MD are yet to be docked in any court of competent jurisdiction.
It noted that the inability of the EFCC to disclose their identity shows that either some people are more powerful than the EFCC or that there are powerful individuals tele-guiding the EFCC boss on who to parade and who not to.
According to the group, “We want to assure him that Northern Youths will stand with him and do everything to protect him, even if it means providing a human shield for him in all his outings provided that he put the interest of over 200m Nigerians above the microscopic few that have access to our common patrimony.”
