Bawa’s suspension: AYCF lauds Tinubu

the apparent compromise of the EFCC.

AYCF added that while welcoming the Federal Government action against Bawa, they are also of the view that it needs to extend the measure to include a total overhaul of the EFCC to flush out remnants of Abdulrasheed Bawa’s accomplices entrenched in top positions of the agency.

“As we except thorough investigations to expose and punish the extent of compromise and complicity of Bawa, it is equally expected that his major accomplices such as his Chief of Staff, Hadiza Ibrahim Gamawa, be suspended as well and subjected to investigation and subsequent prosecution.

“There are incontrovertible facts that the children of the said Chief of Staff Gamawa who is married to a naval officer were trained in expensive foreign schools.

“This inadvertently raises the question of the source of the funds used for such expensive training in addition to several assets owned by the said Gamawa.

“Another principal collaborator in Bawa’s serial atrocities that also needs to be investigated is the Chairman, Monitoring Unit 1, Abuja, Shehu Ala. With regards to the fate that befell Bawa, we consider it a bad lesson for the young generation of Nigerians.

“We categorically state that Bawa has been a huge disappointment for the young people of Nigeria who are supposed to be the natural claimants to the task of shaping the future of the Nigerian society.

“Bawa himself apart from his incompetent handling of the EFCC boss has also acquired massive assets in unexplained and suspicious circumstances that need to be investigated.

“He is also on record as having indulged in a flamboyant lifestyle that involved expensive family trips abroad at will. Other incontrovertible evidence around that Bawa is majorly responsible for all the damaging economic policies pursued by the former Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele that had sunk the nation into a deep crisis and brought about mass sufferings on innocent citizens”, the statement read.

By Egena Sunday Ode

Leader of Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF), Alhaji Asari Dokubo, on Friday vowed to work with President Bola Tinubu to prevent the menace of oil theft as well as attacks on oil facilities in the region.

Dokubo made this declaration while speaking with newsmen shortly after a meeting with the president at the Aso Rock Preaidential Villa, Abuja.

A staunch supporter of Tinubu, Dokubo said he was at the State House to show support and solidarity to the President, whom he described as a father figure, and to discuss issues bordering on security and the fight against oil-theft.

Refuting claims that people from the oil-rich region were the ones perpetuating oil-theft and pipelines vandalism, he accused armed forces personnel, especially those in the Navy and the Army, as the arrowheads of the massive crime going on in the region.

Dokubo maintained that the ordinary Niger Delta citizen lacks the sophistication required for oil theft, insisting that there are ‘notorious’ Army and Navy oil kingpins that have engaged in an unprecedented crude oil theft in the last eight years.

According to him, the way the oil thieves have gone about their criminal activities has stripped the people of the Niger Delta of their livelihood, noting that it is a crime against humanity.

“The president is a fatherly figure to me. Our relationship spans over 30 years. I came here today to give words of encouragement to the President for the actions and policies so far made in this less than three weeks of governing a very difficult country like Nigeria.

“We discussed a wide range of issues, especially on security and oil thieves in the Niger Delta. Myself and my brothers have assured the President that there would be zero oil theft and vandalization in the Niger Delta. We’re going to work with an NNPC, PCN and the IOCs to make sure that oil theft is brought to zero.

“I also want to say that oil theft is encouraged by the military. The military is at the center of oil theft and we have to make this very, very clear to the Nigerian public. 99% of oil theft can be traced to the Nigerian military, the army and the navy especially.

“The Army and the Navy intimidate the Civil Defence, who are by status, the people who are supposed to guard these pipelines. They receive a lot of money from NNPCL and the IOCs and just across the corner, you will see a houseboat a few meters from the house boat, you will see an oil bunkering refinery or tapping directly from oil well ends.

“It is very pathetic now. What is happening in the Niger Delta in the past eight years was unprecedented in the history of oil production anywhere in the world.

“The vandals do not only attack the pipelines, they have migrated from the pipeline and have gone directly to the oil well heads and they take directly from the oil well heads. They set up haphazard