Date Published: 04/05/10

Gunmen attack another EFCC Operative 

Barely two weeks after about 15 armed men ambushed a team of five operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, killing one of them and injuring others along Mbano-Okigwe road, Imo state, the home of another operative of the anti-graft agency on Sunday night came under attack by gun men who shot him severally in the chest.

A statement by the EFCC on Monday stated that the home of Solomon Yorr, an officer attached to the Economic Governance unit which handles mainly cases of politically exposed persons (PEPS), was attacked in Keffi, Nasarawa state by the gunmen on Sunday night.

The operative was rushed to a hospital in Keffi after the attack but was later transferred to a bigger hospital in Abuja where he is being treated at the facility’s intensive care unit.

The EFCC chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri has since directed that security should be beefed up around the officer while she prays for his recovery. She has equally stressed that the various attacks against the agency and its officials will not in any way distract or deter us.

It would be recalled that the EFCC had only two weeks ago raised the alarm over the plot by some persons who are either being investigated or prosecuted in court to mobilise all forms of attacks against the Commission and its officials.

Again, on Thursday April 1, text messages were being sent round by the same elements threatening to kill and maim officials of the EFCC.