The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Friday described as absolutely false, a so-called “exclusive’’ news report making the rounds on social media to the effect that the EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa and former Chairman of the defunct Skye Bank, Mr. Tunde Ayeni, are travelling together, abroad, on a clandestine, self-serving mission.



EFCC's Head, Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren in a release, stated that there was never a meeting and certainly no “plan” between the EFCC Chair and Mr. Ayeni to go anywhere together.


"Furthermore, while the EFCC Chairman is at this time on an approved mission abroad, Ayeni, whom the fiction-turned-news story says is on a clandestine trip with Mr. Bawa, is, from checks, right here in Nigeria. A cursory check would have confirmed that", it affirmed


The Commission which described the story as  vainly trying to push a certain malodorous agenda, explained that it's reaction to the fake story which has the
potential to confound and confuse the unwary, was to set the facts straight.


According to the release, "If the design is to get the Commission to compromise its mandate to investigate and prosecute all cases of economic and financial crimes, then the purveyors of the tendentious story have failed.


"No matter what, the Commission will be guided only by that mandate and its very clear Standard Operating Procedure and WILL NOT be blackmailed  or act in any way predetermined or teleguided by  private interests.  The EFCC WILL ONLY pursue the public interest as defined by the law establishing the Commission", it concluded