The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that a former governor and two former ministers are behind a series of protests against the anti-graft agency.

It said despite the planned protests its operatives would continue to do their work no matter whose ox is gored.
The spokesperson of the anti-graft agency, Dele Oyewale, disclosed while fielding questions from journalists during a press briefing organized by the Strategic Communications Inter-agency Policy Committee (SCIPC) under the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA).

The anti-graft agency had on Wednesday alerted Nigerians on the plan by what it described as “a shadowy group” to instigate a protest against the commission, adding that it was already working in concert with sister security agencies to deal with possible threats to the peace and security of Nigeria.

Responding to a question at the briefing on the main issue that prompted the planned protest, Oyewale said it was because the activities of the commission were already affecting some “looters of the commonwealth”.

He said: “Generally and holistically, all of these people that are talking about ending the EFCC, don’t end EFCC, kill EFCC, don’t kill EFCC, they are people that are tangentially affected by the activities of the commission.