The heads of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Department of State Service avoided
the regular midweek Federal Executive Meeting on Wednesday.
This is as the Presidency still
awaits the official reports on what transpired between the officials of the two
agencies on Tuesday, Punch reports.
Officials of the sister agencies
were during the week involved in a showdown when operatives of Nigeria’s
leading anti-graft agency attempted to arrest a former boss of the DSS, Ita
Ekpeyong; and Ayo Oke, a former Director General of the National Intelligence
Agency, NIA.
The issue of the faceoff was
discussed at the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on
Wednesday.
A cabinet member told the
newspaper that council members resolved that the issue could only be handled
properly after the submission of official reports by the affected agencies.
The cabinet member said the issue
came up during the ‘Any Other Business’ segment of the council meeting
yesterday. (Wednesday).
He added that as of the time of
the meeting, the only information available to the government on the issue was
the media report on the matter.
He pointed out that government’s
business is not operated in that manner. So, the resolution was that the
presidency will wait for official reports from the affected agencies
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