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FG reacts to gov Matawalle’s demand for EFCC probe of Buhari’s govt

Afolabi Hakim by Afolabi Hakim
May 18, 2023
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The Federal Government has replied Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State call for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) should extend its investigation to the presidency and the outgoing ministers.

Governor Matawalle had dared the EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, to take his anti-corruption crusade to the doorsteps of the Presidency and members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

He charged Bawa to probe President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet members and stop maligning governors.

He urged the EFCC boss to ensure the commission’s investigation must be wholistic and not selective.

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He said, “The investigation must be wholistic and not selective. It is in this respect that the recent invitations and pronouncement by the EFCC Chair is imbalance, incomplete, hypocritical and unnecessarily skewed.

“I demand that the EFCC chair extend similar invitations to officers of the Presidency and members of the Federal Executive Council, which is the highest tier of government in the country.”

But the Federal Government in its reaction through the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Matawalle is exercising his freedom of expression by saying.

He noted that the governor expressed his personal opinion.

Asked to respond to the comment, he said, “The governor has the right to make suggestions, that is his own opinion.”

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