{"id":49873,"date":"2021-06-21T12:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T11:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=49873"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T11:24:02","slug":"tinubus-probe-is-currently-ongoing-efcc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/tinubus-probe-is-currently-ongoing-efcc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu\u2019s Probe Is Currently Ongoing \u2014 EFCC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has confirmed that former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu is currently being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Bawa who disclosed this in an interview with ThisDay on Sunday June 20, said such investigations don&#8217;t end in a day.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that they\u00a0have requested for Tinubu\u2019s assets declaration form from when he was the head of Lagos Zonal Office.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC Chairman said;<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cYou asked me a question earlier about arresting people before investigation and now you are saying why didn\u2019t we arrest Tinubu? Why didn\u2019t you just say \u2018arrest him?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigation is ongoing. When you are investigating matters like this, they don\u2019t end in a day. Thousands of investigations are going on, on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou understand? You know you are from the media. 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