PREMIUM TIMES
Officials of the State Security Service (SSS) Tuesday morning prevented officials of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, from gaining access to the latter’s Lagos headquarters in Ikoyi, Lagos.
As of the time of this report, all the EFCC officials at the office in Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, were prevented from accessing the building by SSS officials, PREMIUM TIMES learnt.
“They even placed an armoured tank just to scare us away,” one EFCC official told this newspaper.
PREMIUM TIMES later learnt that two armoured vehicles were actually placed by the SSS to essentially scare and deter the officials from the building. The armoured vehicles are believed to have been brought in in the early hours of Tuesday.
Sources in both agencies said there has been an ongoing controversy between both agencies over the ownership of the building on 15A, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
However, the building was shared by both agencies up until yesterday when EFCC officials who were present closed from work. None of them, including those who observed Monday’s public holiday, expected to witness what they met on Tuesday.
The EFCC was yet to speak about the incident as of the time of this report. Its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, did not return calls or reply a message by this reporter…
