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Some gunmen attacked the head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Wilson Uwajaren, spokesman of the commission, who disclosed this in a statement hours after the incident, said the gunmen left a death note for one of the anti-graft agency\u2019s detectives.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that the intruders could not make their way into the complex because security guards on duty repelled them.<\/p>\n

\u201cA major security breach was recorded at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the early hours of Wednesday, August 16,\u00a02017,\u00a0as unknown gunmen attacked the office located at Wuse Zone 7, Abuja,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe group of heavily armed bandits invaded the office at about 05.00 hours and began shooting into the premises, damaging vehicles parked\u00a0in\u00a0the premises in the process. However, the attack was repelled by guards on duty.<\/p>

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\u201cThe hoodlums escaped in a getaway vehicle but not without leaving a message; a white envelope dropped by the fleeing attackers was found to contain a death threat addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the commission. Ishaku who heads the foreign exchange malpractices fraud section is in charge of\u00a0corruption\u00a0investigation involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass hats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attack on the zone 7 office which houses the\u00a0commission\u2019s\u00a0AMCON desk, procurement fraud and foreign exchange malpractices sections,\u00a0is coming few weeks after another investigator, Austin Okwor was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uwujaren added that the incident had already been reported to the police for investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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