It has become necessary
to alert the general public to the activities of fraudsters who have been
impersonating the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Ibrahim Magu and
extorting money from members of the public under various guises.
A few weeks after the
Commission raised the alarm over the activities of a syndicate which opened a facebook
account in the name of the EFCC boss and began soliciting for friendship from
prominent individuals and all manner of favours using the platform; another group
has cloned the telephone numbers of the acting chairman.
The latest group has been
making calls to close contacts of the anti-graft Czar and other prominent
personalities demanding for huge sums of money using various pretexts.
Members of the public are hereby warned to disregard any call
supposedly from the EFCC Chairman asking for payments to be made either to
nominated proxies or accounts as such calls do not emanate from Ibrahim Magu.
For the avoidance of
doubts, the EFCC Chairman, indeed all officials of the agency, do not solicit
for nor accept payments/gratification from persons or organisations under any
guise.
Member of the public are enjoined
to report anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of the acting chairman or
other officials of the EFCC at any of the Commission’s offices in Abuja, Lagos,
Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kano, Gombe, Ibadan and Maiduguri or the nearest police
station.
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