The Commission said it took great restraints for the operatives to ignore the unprovoked attack but insisted on arresting the suspect.
Mr Uwujaren said that the anti-graft agency had also released incidents reporting hotlines for the 36 states and the FCT.
Mr Bello’s wife, Rashida, was recently named in a money laundering probe by the EFCC, which said the Kogi first lady conspired to loot billions of naira from the state treasury.
Mr Lawson said EFCC under AbdulRasheed Bawa allegedly had the penchant for disobedience of lawful court orders and had politicised activities.
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.”
