A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), the Movement for the Actualisation of True Federal and Political Restructuring in Nigeria (MATFPRN) has faulted the operation style  of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, 2004 Act, stressing that its establishment was inconsistent with the Constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria as amended .

The group which described EFCC establishment as “A child of illegitimacy”, lament that the anti-graft agency has engaged in “terrorist methods of operation and secret night cover operation” against their perceived enemies or suspects.

Spokesman of the group, Comrade Benjamin Timothy while addressing journalists in Lokoja yesterday, also described the EFCC’s Modus- operandi as “Crude and ancient.”

“We can perfectly described the actions of the EFCC as an agency behaving noble at day time but going ballistic, gun blazing and violent at odd hours.

“EFCC derived its establishment from UN charter, which is to take a preventive measures to curb corrupt practices. However the EFCC 2004 Act is inconsistent with the provision of constitution; and we fully support the 16 states that dragged it before the apex court.

“In 2016, the EFCC in their usual gestapo manner stormed the home of justice Ofili Ajumogobia , a judge of a Federal High Court at 5:00am in the morning under the guise of investigation and prosecution of a case of alleged money laundering and breach of public trust.

“Eventually, after such a public show of shame and National embarrassment by the EFCC, the cases were struck out by a high court judge of Lagos state in 2019 and she was reinstated as a Federal High Court judge on the 1st of December, 2022. An Abysmal performance , worst methodology and waste of resources by the agency.

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“On the 29th of October 2021, the EFCC again stormed the Maitama home of a supreme court judge, Justice Mary Odili in Abuja. The operatives accompanied by policemen broke into her home in search of her husband who was a Governor in Rivers state between 1999 and 2007 after the latter had obtained perpetual injunction from a court of competent jurisdiction banning EFCC from investigating him and got another fresh injunction in 2020 against any impending probe. The EFCC flagrantly disobeyed and disregarded the laws of the country .

“It is also a public knowledge that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission stormed the Kogi Government Lodge, Asokoro in an attempt to forcefully arrest former Governor Yahaya Bello.

“They shot sporadically in an attempt to forcefully arrest former Governor Yahaya Bello when it was reported earlier that the former Governor went to the EFCC Office voluntarily earlier that day but the Commission told him to leave and come at a later date, only to mount a Gestapo-like attack on the Kogi State Government facility in Asokoro.