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Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja
The new Chairman-designate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who is expected to face Senate screening soon, is beset by a legal hurdle following a controversy surrounding his rank,
Saturday PUNCH has learnt.
It was learnt that a lawyer, Osuagwu Ugochukwu, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to stop the Senate confirmation of the chairman-designate.
The court document marked FHC/ABJ/CS/196/2021 was received at the Office of the Senate President on Thursday, according to an acknowledgement copy obtained by our correspondent on Friday.
It was learnt that the leadership of the Senate, the Presidency and the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation were holding talks as to how to address the issue in order to avoid a repeat of the last screening exercise where the then nominee, Ibrahim Magu, was rejected twice by the Senate.
Ahead of Senate screening, EFCC acting chairman promoted to Level 14
The new acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been promoted to the rank of Chief Detective
Superintendent ahead of his Senate screening.
Section 2 of the EFCC Act states that a person who will be
appointed as chairman of the commission must have at least 15 years experience
and must be the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police or its equivalent.
Bawa, who was appointed by the President, Major General
Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on February 16, 2021, was on Grade Level 13 and a
Deputy Chief Detective Superintendent.
Intrigues as top government men fight over control of EFCC
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By Emmanuel Aziken
Muttering over the nomination of Abdulrasheed Bawa as the next chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC was overflowing into a melody in the political and judicial arena at the weekend.
Allegations of illegality in the appointment of Bawa were being met with counter plots by his supporters as political actors in different camps of the Muhammadu Buhari regime fight to take hold of the EFCC ahead of their 2023 plots.
Central to the allegations against Bawa are that his nomination violates the EFCC Act, allegations of a filial relationship to a senior operative of the Buhari administration and claims of unsettled allegations of misdeeds against the nominee in his past positions.
The new acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been promoted to the rank of Chief Detective Superintendent ahead of his Senate screening, according to a report.