Yes, EFCC Is Probing Tinubu – Bawa

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, says a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is under investigation.

In an exclusive interview published by ThisDay on Sunday, Bawa said investigation does not end in a day.

The EFCC chairman while responding to a question as to why Tinubu had not been arrested, he said: “You asked me a question earlier about arresting people before investigation and now you are saying why didn’t we arrest Tinubu? Why didn’t you just say ‘arrest him?’

“Investigation is ongoing. When you are investigating matters like this, they don’t end in a day. Thousands of investigations are going on, on a daily basis.

“You understand? You know you are from the media. After you will say we are doing media trial.”

Bawa was said to have requested for Tinubu’s assets declaration form when he was the head of Lagos Zonal Office.

In a related development, a former Managing Director of Alpha Beta LLP, Mr. Dapo Apara, has filed a suit demanding a Lagos State High Court to stop Tinubu from “controlling the finances of Alpha Beta.”

The suit was filed on Wednesday by Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on behalf of Apara.

The suit is upon misusings between the two parties as to the operations of Alpha Beta, a tax consultancy which is reported to collect tax revenues on behalf of the Lagos State Government. The operation of the company has been the butt of criticisms by political opponents of the National Leader of the APC.

Bawa in his interview, however, did not say if the EFCC probe of Tinubu extended to the activities of Alpha Beta.

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