Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Wednesday, said the EFCC lied\u00a0 when it\u00a0 denied it bestowed on him\u00a0 the title of Anti \u2013 Corruption Ambassador.<\/p>\n
Ekweremadu in a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Mr. Uche Anichukwu, said\u00a0 the EFCC denial was most unfortunate.<\/p>\n
The statement reads, \u201d We want to put it on record that the EFCC Liaison Officer to the National Assembly, Mr. Suleiman Bakari, and his team, applied for and subsequently paid a courtesy call on the Deputy President of the Senate in his Office on Tuesday, April 19, 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Bakari, amongst other issues he raised, solicited the support of the Senate and National Assembly towards the anti-corruption crusade of the present administration, and even presented a frame with a bold picture of President Muhammadu Buhari, bearing the inscription: \u201cIf we don\u2019t kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Bakari also, on behalf of the Acting Chairman, management, and staff of the EFCC decorated Senator Ekweremadu as an Anti-Corruption Ambassador of the EFCC.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is also a fact that the visit and decoration was captured in both pictures and video.\u201d<\/p>\n
It added,\u201dWe wish to refer him (Uwujaren,) to December 7, 2007, when the Nuhu Ribadu-led EFCC conferred the Role Model Award in the Fight Against Corruption, on certain persons, including a former President of the Senate; a taxi driver; and a former Justice of the Federal High Court at the Musa Yar\u2019Adua Centre, Abuja.\u201d<\/p>\n
It said, \u201cTaking cognisance of the command structure of the agency, we also wonder whether Mr. Bakari could have acted on his own or read from a prepared text without recourse to the Commission, which he represents, especially as the visit and decoration was never solicited for in the first place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, on Wednesday, said the EFCC lied\u00a0 when it\u00a0 denied it bestowed on him\u00a0 the title of Anti \u2013 Corruption Ambassador. Ekweremadu in a statement by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n