The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said Monday that it would revisit the allegations of funds embezzlement levelled against former Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle.
The spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, said this while addressing protesters who stormed the commission’s headquarters in Abuja to demand the probe of Mr Matawalle, the incumbent Minister of State for Defence.
Mr Oyewale assured the protesters that their demands would be relayed to the EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede, adding that “the EFCC will do everything within its power to investigate every act of economic and financial crime.”
The protesters, under the aegis of the APC Akida Forum, had gathered at the EFCC headquarters to lodge a petition, urging the commission to proceed with its investigation of Mr Matawalle.
Speaking on behalf of the group at the EFCC headquarters, Musa Mahmud noted that they had confidence in the anti-graft agency especially with the doggedness it…