OHANAEZE AND AREWA YOUTHS DEMAND REMOVAL OF EFCC CHAIRMAN

The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide today, joined those calling for the removal of the chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa.

The Igbo group made the demand in a statement made available to newsmen by its National President, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike.

He said the call became necessary as the EFCC was according to him drifting off its known credibility.

Okwu said the Igbo group was not surprised owing to an earlier alarm that Bawa was compromised.

They advised President Muhammadu Buhari to do the needful by purging his government of all the ridicule brought upon his avowed anti-corruption stance by Bawa and the EFCC under him.

Speaking further, he said should Buhari fail to do so, the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu should consider it as one of his very first assignments- to make Bawa step aside and face investigation as this is the only way Nigerians would rekindle their hope in the anti-graft commission.

In the same vein, a northern coalition of civil society organisations has called on the EFCC chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, to resign or be fired over alleged corrupt allegations.

In a statement today, the chairman of the Coalition of Arewa Civil Society Organisations, Adamu Aminu Musa, noted that Abdulrasheed Bawa’s resignation at this point in time is sacrosanct in order to save Nigeria’s reputation.

The statement alleged that Bawa, has been at the centre of so many corruption allegations even before his appointment as EFCC chairman and called on the Presidency to do something about it