Abdulrasheed Bawa,
the chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has
challenged Bello Matawalle to write a petition against him if has committed any
form of financial infractions.
Speaking with
BBC Hausa on Thursday, Bawa asked Matawalle, Zamfara
governor, to report any governor who has committed financial crimes to the
EFCC.
On Wednesday,
the Zamfara governor asked the EFCC chairman to ensure that the agency’s probe
does not target only outgoing governors but also officials in the presidency.
Matawalle said the planned investigation by the EFCC “must be holistic and not selective”.
Reacting to
Matawalle’s comments, the anti-graft agency disclosed that it is
probing the governor for allegedly diverting N70 billion meant for contracts in
the state.
Asked during the interview to react to an allegation from
Matawalle that the EFCC boss is not ” completely clean from corruption”, Bawa
said the type of person who is 100 percent clean from corruption does not
exist.
“Is there any human that is 100%? That type of person
doesn’t exist. I read what he (Matawalle) said that we should investigate
ministers and governors. We are doing our investigations on them. If he knows
any governor that has done something wrong, he should report him to us,” he
said.
“As I’m speaking to you now, we have a minister under our
custody for about one week over N25b fraud. We are doing our work.
“Because someone has committed a crime doesn’t mean another
person’s crime will not be an offence. Everyone will answer his own name.
“If he thinks I have done something wrong, there is the
police, ICPC, and code of conduct, he can write to them and say this is what
the EFCC chairman had done, and he should be investigated.
“I received a report on an investigation that was conducted
(on Matawalle) where there was a contractor who was given about four billion
naira.
“The contractor told
EFCC he supplied the items he was paid for. When asked to show documents of
proof of the supply, he said he doesn’t have them and he took the money to
bureau de change to convert it to foreign currency and gave it to some
government officials. That was what the contractor told us.
“There is another contractor too, who was paid over four
billion for the construction of roads. A single stone wasn’t laid by the
contractor.”
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