The Ikeja area of Lagos State witnessed traffic logjam this Saturday afternoon when hundreds of anti-Bawa activists of the Coalition of Anticorruption Organizations spread out in their numbers along the busy Alausa-Obafemi Awolowo Way chanting “Bawa Must Go” with placards condemning the EFCC chairman’s penchant for disobeying Court orders.<\/p>\n
The crowd was vehement in demanding for the removal of Abdulrasheed Bawa as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.<\/span><\/p>\n Led by Dr. Kolawole Sanchez-Jude,\u00a0 <\/span>Comrade Declan Ihekaire, Barr. Cletus Okedube, Barr. Johnson Areola, Barr. George Sanda, Comrade Femi Lawson and a host of other notable activists, the protest was well-coordinated with Police presence to forestall the protest from being hijacked by hoodlums. <\/span><\/p>\n The group’s Press Statement was read by Comrade Femi Lawson and it’s reproduced below:<\/span><\/p>\n “The EFCC cannot continue to dehumanise Nigerians on the pages of newspapers, based on unverified political investigations and without proving their case beyond reasonable doubt in a competent court. <\/span><\/p>\n The fixation of the EFCC boss on certain individuals and institutions when grievous petitions capable of bringing the economy down are left unattended, gives the anti-corruption war, under the leadership of Mr. Bawa, a dangerously political colouration. <\/span><\/p>\n It has become a tool used to distract perceived political opponents of certain powerful interests with all manner of unfounded embarrassments promoted in both the conventional and social media <\/span><\/p>\n We have authoritative information that the EFCC has been intimidating the media not to coverb stories that are unfavorable to the Commission. We call on\u00a0 <\/span>stakeholders in the Nigerian project to call them to order.<\/span><\/p>\n Nigeria is not a Police state and we the activists will not stand by while people’s rights are denied them unjustly”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ikeja area of Lagos State witnessed traffic logjam this Saturday afternoon when hundreds of anti-Bawa activists of the Coalition of Anticorruption Organizations spread out in their numbers along the busy Alausa-Obafemi Awolowo Way chanting “Bawa Must Go” with placards condemning the EFCC chairman’s penchant for disobeying Court orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6460,6459,6458],"class_list":["post-12043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-bawa-must-go-protest","tag-contempt-order","tag-efcc-chairman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}