EFCC AND THE ART OF DISINFORMATION

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should just stick to its mandate, serious-fraud policing and stop playing the intellectual-disinformation card because this vindictive, political, almost secretive outfit is not good at intellectual-disinformation. The Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, recently cried out that he was privy to insider information about a planned raid by EFCC to plant incriminating stuff at his property in Enugu. Shamefully, EFCC went ahead with this operation but now couched as a “whistle-blower-”inspired raid. Soon after, the national newsfeeds were awash with the implausible story that this “whistle-blower” provided false information on Mr. Ekweremadu, and was thus duly charged to court, and has been placed on a N500,000 bail-bond. Does the EFCC expect Nigerians to believe this baby’s tale? Contemporarily, too, the national newsfeeds conveyed yet another story on the EFCC to the effect that this agency was double-quick to clear one of its own over allegations that he acquired property worth billions of naira spread as far away as Keffi and other parts of Nasarawa State. Thus, Nigerians should believe that EFCC operatives are incorruptible and “super-clean” to the point that savvy investments earned these operatives personal wealth quantifiable in billions of naira! Sunday Adole Jonah, Department of Physics, Federal University of Technology, Minna