{"id":7105,"date":"2023-11-20T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2023-11-20T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T14:22:30","slug":"lawsuit-looms-for-naf-personnel-over-security-breach-at-efcc-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/20\/lawsuit-looms-for-naf-personnel-over-security-breach-at-efcc-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Looms for NAF Personnel Over Security Breach at EFCC Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed its intention to take legal action against Nigerian Air Force personnel who were released on administrative bail by its Kaduna Zonal Command once the ongoing investigation is concluded. This announcement was made in a release posted on the EFCC website on Monday, as communicated by the Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale.<\/p>\n

Previously, certain members of the Nigerian Air Force had been granted administrative bail on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The officers were returned to their service following strict adherence to the bail procedures of the commission. The commission emphasizes that no one is above the law, and the due process will be observed in concluding the case,” stated Oyewale.<\/p>\n

The EFCC had previously revealed that officers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) were implicated in a security breach. The agency highlighted that the NAF officers were apprehended for attempting to release suspected fraudsters who had been arrested by the EFCC.<\/p>\n

Oyewale said, \u201cOperatives of the Kaduna Zonal Command of the EFCC, on Monday, November 13, 2023, arrested five suspects at a residential Inn and Disney Chicken Eatery, Barnawa, Kaduna following credible intelligence about their alleged internet- related fraud activities.<\/p>\n

The suspected fraudsters: Favour Itung, Rachael Ande, Zuleiman Haruna, Abubakar Ismaila and Solomon Olobatoke were arrested without incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, after the sting operation, six military personnel who witnessed the operation at Disney Chicken Eatery, stormed the Kaduna Command and tried to forcefully release the arrested fraud suspects. They were subdued and detained over the security breach.<\/p>\n

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The intruders consist of four Air Force personnel: Lawal Abdullahi, Chukwuma Christian, Alfa Suleiman, and Emmanuel Ekwozor, along with two students from the Nigerian Air Force Institute of Technology, Chidera Anuba and Joseph Tokula. While in custody, there were inter-agency communications and discussions between the leadership of the EFCC and the Nigerian Air Force to resolve the issues.<\/p>\n

“Regrettably, negotiations for the release of the apprehended Air Force personnel broke down on Friday, November 17, 2023, when some disruptive NAF Officers forcibly entered the Kaduna Command in a commando-style operation to release their detained colleagues.<\/p>\n

“Despite the provocation and abuse of power, the EFCC exercised restraint. The Commission continued to engage with the leadership of the Nigeria Air Force and eventually released the officers to the NAF Provost after completing their proper profiling. The EFCC reassures the public that it will persist in fulfilling its statutory mandate to address all cases of economic and financial crimes, without obstruction.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed its intention to take legal action against Nigerian Air Force personnel who were released on administrative bail by its Kaduna Zonal Command once the ongoing investigation is concluded. This announcement was made in a release posted on the EFCC website on Monday, as communicated by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7121,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions\/7121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}