Tinubu asks SSS to vacate EFCC Lagos workplace

President Bola Tinubu has requested Nigeria’s secret police, the State Safety Service (SSS), to finish the blockade of the Lagos workplace of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).

The president, in a press release by his media aide, Tunde Rahman, gave the directive on Tuesday after he was briefed on the motion of the SSS on the EFCC workplace within the Ikoyi space of Lagos.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the SSS positioned two armoured autos to scare and deter the fee’s officers from the constructing. The armoured autos are believed to have been introduced in within the early hours of Tuesday.

Sources in each businesses stated there had been an ongoing controversy between each businesses over the possession of the constructing at 15A, Awolowo Street, Ikoyi, Lagos.

SSS spokesperson Peter Afunanya informed PREMIUM TIMES that his company was the rightful proprietor of the constructing.

Mr Tinubu, who simply assumed responsibility on Tuesday after his inauguration on Monday, stated if there have been points between the 2 essential authorities businesses, they might be resolved amicably.

The Ikoyi constructing

Situated within the intellectual Ikoyi space of Lagos, the constructing at 15A Awolowo Street serves because the Lagos head workplace of the EFCC. The workplace is headed by the zonal head of the fee in Lagos.

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It’s separate from the EFCC workplace in Okotie-Eboh, additionally in Ikoyi, which homes the company’s detention centre in Lagos.

Regardless that the EFCC makes use of the Awolowo Street constructing as its Lagos head workplace, the SSS had all the time used a part of the constructing for its operations till Tuesday morning, when it appeared to have taken full management.