Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),has just confirmed that heading an Anti-graft agency in Nigeria,is dangerous job.He said he has been receiving death threats since he became the chairman of the anti-corruption agency.
Bawa said when he was away in the US, he was contacted by a high-profile Nigerian who told him that some Nigerians were after his life. He said this on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Tuesday.
“Last week, I was in New York, as all Nigerians are aware of. A very senior citizen received a phone call from somebody that is not even under investigation. What the caller said to him on the phone is that; he is going to kill the EFCC chairman,” he said.
“He said, ‘I am going to kill him. I am going to kill him’. This is to tell you how bad it is. It is actually real. Corruption can fight back.”
In February 2021, the 40-year-old law enforcer was named as the new EFCC chairman to replace Ibrahim Magu, the former acting chairman of the anti-graft commission.
