Junaid Mohammed, a second
republic lawmaker, has alleged that there is infighting between the nation’s
security and anti-graft agencies.
He said the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is “at war” with the Department of State
Services (DSS), and that there is “terrible confusion” at the National
Intelligence Agency (NIA).
Mohammed said this on Monday
while speaking on Channels Television. President Muhammadu Buhari’s
three-year-old administration was assessed during the programme.
He featured on the programme
alongside Oby Ezekwesili, former minister of finance, and Fetus Keyamo,
spokesman of Buhari’s re-election campaign.
Mohammed said the “infighting”
has marred the current administration’s fight against corruption.
“Today, the DG of DSS is not on
speaking terms with the person he is supposed to coordinate some of these
things with,” he said.
“The EFCC is at war with the DSS.
The NIA is in terrible confusion that the DG does not even go to his office, he
has a new office in the presidency.”
But Keyamo described his claims
as lies and unfounded.
“It is not true. These are
gentlemen I know, they talk,” he said, adding that: “These are things we push
into the public space that we are not sure of. What facts do you have to back
it up?”
Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of
the EFCC, remains unconfirmed as chairman, partly because the senate said a DSS
report indicted him of some practices which they said makes him unfit for the
office.
The EFCC and the DSS have also
had misunderstandings, particularly when operatives of the latter agency
prevented the arrest of Ayo Oke, sacked director-general of the NIA, and Ita
Ekpeyong, the immediate past director-general of the DSS.
But Keyamo said the perceived
bickering between the security agencies is only a “difference in perspective”.
He said the disagreement between
the agencies is a “credit” to the government.
“The president allows the
agencies to do their work. The SSS is not looking at the body language of the
president that he has appointed this person, so I will cover whatever he has
done because the president wants him to be in office,” he said.
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