EFCC Operatives Arrests Man Impersonating Bawa In Abuja

Salman Umar Hudu, a Kano native, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for impersonating the executive chairman of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa.

A statement released by the EFCC’s media office on February 14, said the suspect was detained in Abuja for allegedly misrepresenting and impersonating himself as Abdulrasheed Bawa, the anti-graft agency’s chairman.

The commission added that the suspect received N100,000 from a person to whom he made a guarantee to assist with on EFCC matters.

The statement reads:

On February 14, 2023, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested Salman Umar Hudu, a 38-year-old Kano native, at a hotel in Abuja for impersonating the EFCC’s Executive Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, and other officers of the Commission in order to obtain N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) from a person he had persuaded that he could handle any issue with the EFCC. At the conclusion of the investigation, the suspect will be charged after providing helpful information.

Meanwhile, the EFCC on Tuesday, explained why its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, did not obey a court order that committed him to prison for contempt. The Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, who spoke to the press in Abuja, said the Commission believed it was denied fair hearing and that as a law-abiding institution, the EFCC had approached the appellate court, for a stay of execution.

He did not say whether the stay of execution had been granted to forestall the order for the arrest of Bawa by the Inspector-General of Police.

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