EFCC PLOTS ASSASINATION OF ONLINE JOURNALISTS

A crippling accusation of nursing a grudge against a section of the media, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, is been alleged to be nestling a “killer squad” that aims exterminate the publishers and Journalists of Saharareporters.com and Pointblanknews.com.

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Sources familiar with the “ruthless determination” of Mrs. Farida told a Pointblanknews.com reporter that the recent “kidnap” of foreign based journalists who were in Nigeria for either business or family visits were instigated by her.

The source who said Mrs. Farida has become “paranoia” on the need to curtail the extreme activities of Nigerian foreign based media claimed that he witnessed the “horrendous abuse” of journalists Jonathan Elendu, Adamu Abubakar Gwarzo and Emeke Asiwe.

The source who pleaded anonymity fearing reprisals from equally brutal lieutenants of Mrs. Waziri said the EFCC’s boss personally participated in the physical and verbal abuses of detained journalists.

The source who denied approving the “crude tactics” often employed by Waziri said that in the specific 51 days incarceration of Mr. Gwarzo, the French trained Nigerian reporter, Mrs. Waziri personally asked the detained Journalist to “falsely” confess that Mr. Sowore of Sahareporters.com and his colleagues at Pointblanknews.com are being sponsored by “foreign forces” to “instigate a violent overthrow” of the democratically elected Government of Nigeria.

But Saharareporters.com and Pointblanknews.com have always maintained that they only operate on the legitimate platform “on the Nigerian’s right to know so that democracy can thrive.

The source said that the egg-heads at Saharareporters.com and Pointblanknews.com are well priced amongst Waziri’s operatives and that with the way the EFCC’s boss is carrying on with her determination to “deal with online journalists, the tragedy of Ken Saro-Wiwa may be repeated soon.”

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According to the source “I swear, I saw Mrs. Waziri, a woman who once wore the police badge of honor and swore to defend Nigerian citizens, harassed, intimidated and threatened to kill journalists.”

He continued, “I was scared when she accused Gwarzo of conniving with Yoruba and Igbo Journalists to test her will.” She accused Gwarzo of not being a true northerner.

The source alleged witnessing some of the operatives of the EFCC perpetrate outright illegality and fraud. While Gwarzo was in detention, they took his cell phone and called Sowore of Sahareporters.com and pretended it was Gwarzo that was calling.

“They got the media to smear him that he defrauded someone to the tune of $48, 000.

An attempt to speak with Mrs. Waziri or her spokesperson was not successful as she was said to have traveled to England on an undisclosed assignment.

Meanwhile, the authorities in Nigeria still hold on to the traveling documents of the three journalists recently released from illegal detention