The I-G said the Force had embedded intelligence officers during political rallies to identify with precision, persons encouraging and perpetrating violence.
Kogi’s information commissioner Kingsley Fanwo accused EFCC of “desperation to crucify Kogi state at all costs.”
Mr Bawa said that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed that the recovered funds be deployed to critical projects across the country.
Mr Bawa made the pronouncement in Port Harcourt, while declaring open a workshop on Financial Crimes Reporting held for journalists in the Niger Delta.
But Mr Bawa said, “With this redesigning, (the) dollar may massively fall, who knows, probably to N200.”
“As far as the relationship between the EFCC and the judiciary is concerned, the chairman has been an apostle of the rule of law, due process.”
“I am not aware of any order. Perhaps it was not addressed to us,” police spokesman Olumuyiwa Adejobi told Peoples Gazette.
The court had on November 21, 2018, directed the EFCC to return to an applicant his Range Rover SUV and N40 million.
“From well over N710 to the dollar, following the commission’s intervention, the naira has appreciated significantly against the dollar,” said Mr Bawa.
The president stressed that “if we are putting the teachings of our religions into practice, most of the evils afflicting our society would have been solved.”
