– Operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have allegedly invaded the Sun Newspapers headquarters in Lagos
– Staff of the company were allegedly ordered out as operatives conducted an hour search of the premises
– Details of the invasion are still sketchy but the EFCC and newspaper outfit have been at loggerheads for quite sometime
Sahara Reporters is reporting that men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) invaded the headquarters of the Sun Newspaper today June 12.
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The EFCC operatives were said to have ordered staff of the Newspaper outfit out while they conducted a search of the company premises.
Details of the invasion are still sketchy but the EFCC and newspaper outfit have been at loggerheads for quite sometime
The search was said to have lasted an hour.
Details are still sketchy as at the time of filing this reports.
But ZENITHBLOG.com recalls that EFCC and the Newspaper outfit had been been at loggerheads with each other for quite some time.
In April, the EFCC accused the Newspaper outfit of publishing outright falsehood against the agency.
In a press statement, the EFCC said:
“The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a report captioned, “Judge Blasts EFCC, FREES Justice Ademola, Wife,Others”, which was promoted on the front page of Daily Sun of Thursday April 6, 2017.
“The banner created the false impression that the EFCC handled the prosecution of the Judge and his wife which case was dismissed on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 as lacking in merit.
“Curiously going through the body of the story on page 6 of the newspaper, there was nowhere the EFCC was mentioned as the prosecuting agency. Instead, the writer made copious
“The report in fact is emphatic that: ”The charges were filed by the office of the Attorney General of the Federation, following the raid by the Department of State Services’ operatives on the Judge’s house on October 7, 2016”.
“How and why the name of the EFCC crept into the banner headline remains a puzzle except that The Sun group appears to have made EFCC bashing a pastime in recent times.
“A few days ago, the Saturday edition of the newspaper went to town with a scandalous report linking ownership of two mansions in Ministers Hill, Maitama, Abuja, to the wife of Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the EFCC. Mr. Magu was therefore forced to write the publication through his lawyers, asking for retraction, public apology and compensation for libel.
“Even rookie journalists and non media practitioners in Nigeria know that the EFCC had no role in Justice Ademola’s arrest and trial but it serves The Sun’s agenda to consistently malign the Commission by linking the agency to the case because the ruling was not favourable. Were the judgment to have been otherwise, would The Sun attribute the case to the EFCC?
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“The Commission therefore demands retraction of the offensive report and an apology that must be given the same prominence as the story in question.”
Meanwhile, recall that the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has reiterated the agency’s readiness to ensure that corruption is completely wiped out in Nigeria.
This, according to him, will ensure that the country retains her position in the comity of nations.
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