Abdulrasheed Bawa, the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has spent about five weeks (34 days) in the custody of the Department of State Services after he was arrested on June 14, hours after his suspension by President Bola Tinubu. SaharaReporters had reported how Abdulrasheed Bawa, refused to write statements at the secret police’s facility. SaharaReporters further gathered that Bawa told investigators that the DSS had no right to detain him without charges, hence his refusal to write any statements in custody.
July 18, 2023
SaharaReporters further gathered that Bawa told investigators that the DSS had no right to detain him without charges, hence his refusal to write any statements in custody. “The detained EFCC chairman has refused to write statements; he told DSS they have no right to detain him without charges. However, SaharaReporters later learnt that Bawa had been moved from the DSS headquarters to one of its private facilities.
In a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, Olajengbesi had said the prolonged detention of Bawa by the secret police was illegal and an embarrassment to the nation’s justice system. Bawa’s invitation and grilling by the DSS came days after Emefiele was arrested and flown from Lagos to Abuja to also face interrogations over alleged corruption and abuse of office.
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