{"id":67223,"date":"2023-10-26T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67223"},"modified":"2023-10-26T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:14:17","slug":"four-months-after-honouring-dss-invitation-former-efcc-boss-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67223","title":{"rendered":"Four months after honouring DSS invitation, former EFCC boss returns home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">F<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">our months after he honoured an invitation by the Department of State Services (EFCC), <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"> Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa,\u00a0 has been released from detention.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">, <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201cDSS confirms release of former EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, a few hours ago (today 25th October, 2023),\u201d Peter Afunanya, DSS Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications disclosed in a terse statement via X.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Bawa was suspended indefinitely by\u00a0President Bola Tinubu, shortly after which he allegedly resigned, paving way for the for the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">There were reports of Bawa returning over N500 million to the Federal Government, though details were sketchy; but there is no mention of any case being instituted against him for any financial malfeasance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">A statement\u00a0 from the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation said the suspension was to allow for proper investigation into his conduct while in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The statement said the suspension followed weighty allegations of abuse of office levelled against the former EFCC boss.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_231026_100813_398.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four months after he honoured an invitation by the Department of State Services (EFCC), immediate past Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa,\u00a0 has been released from detention. , \u201cDSS confirms release of former EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, a few hours ago (today 25th October, 2023),\u201d Peter Afunanya, DSS Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2928,169,164],"class_list":["post-67223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-bawa","tag-dss","tag-efcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}