June 15, (THEWILL)- Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Tuesday alleged that he has been receiving death threats since he came to head the anti-graft agency.
Bawa spoke on Tuesday when he featured in Channels Television’s “Sunrise Daily” programme monitored by THEWILL.
President Muhammadu Buhari had in November 2016 said, “Corruption is fighting back vigorously.”
But when asked on Tuesday if indeed corruption is fighting back, Bawa said, “Last week, I was in New York, as all Nigerians are aware of. A very senior citizen received a phone call from somebody that is not even under investigation. What he (the caller) said to him on phone is that; he is going to kill the EFCC Chairman, the young man.
“He said, ‘I am going to kill him. I am going to kill him’. This is to tell you how bad it is. It is actually real. Corruption can fight back.”
When further asked if he meant he has been receiving death threats, the EFCC Chairman said, “Yes”.
The President had in February 2021 appointed 40-year-old Bawa as the new EFCC Chairman to replace the embattled former boss of the anti-graft commission, Ibrahim Magu.