$2m Bribe: EFCC issues Press Statement over Governor’s allegation
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it will not be drawn into a mud fight with Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State.…
he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it will not be drawn into a mud fight with Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State.
The commission said this while reacting to the allegation that the governor levelled against Abdulrasheed Bawa, Chairman of the anti-graft agency.
Matawalle, who has been involved in heated exchanges with the EFCC in recent times, had alleged that Baw demanded $2 million bribe from him.
“If he exits office, people will surely know he is not an honest person. I have evidence against him. Let him vacate office, I am telling you within 10 seconds probably more than 200 people will bring evidences of bribe he collected from them. He knows what he requested from me but I declined.
“He requested a bribe of $2 million from me and I have evidence of this. He knows the house we met, he invited me and told me the conditions. He told me governors were going to his office but I did not. If I don’t have evidence, I won’t say this,” Matawalle had said.
But responding in a statement on Friday, Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the anti-graft agency, likened Matawalle to a drowning man.
He said the agency could not be involved in an argument with a suspect and dared Matawalle to “go ahead ans spill the beans”.
Matawalle, who has been involved in heated exchanges with the EFCC in recent times, had alleged that Baw demanded $2 million bribe from him.
In an interview with BBC Hausa, Matawalle insisted that Bawa could not be trusted.
“If he exits office, people will surely know he is not an honest person. I have evidence against him. Let him vacate office, I am telling you within 10 seconds probably more than 200 people will bring evidences of bribe he collected from them. He knows what he requested from me but I declined.
“He requested a bribe of $2 million from me and I have evidence of this. He knows the house we met, he invited me and told me the conditions. He told me governors were going to his office but I did not. If I don’t have evidence, I won’t say this,” Matawalle had said.
But responding in a statement on Friday, Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the anti-graft agency, likened Matawalle to a drowning man.
He said the agency could not be involved in an argument with a suspect and dared Matawalle to “go ahead ans spill the beans”.
“”The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been drawn to a trending interview granted to the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, by Bello Muhammed Matawalle, governor of Zamfara State, where he allegedly made wild bribery allegations against the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa.”
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