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The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), said it is alarmed by the series
of bomb threats to senior officials and its offices in a manner similar
to the independence day bomb blasts in Abuja.

The spokesman of
the anti-graft agency Femi Babafemi, who said this at a press briefing
on Thursday, condemned the threats issued against its officers,
including the agency’s chairperson, Farida Waziri, and warned that
masterminds of these threats will be treated strictly as terrorists.

Mr Babafemi said
an unidentifiable group had on October 20 sent text messages to the
telephone numbers of some media executives warning of impending bomb
attack on the EFCC and its top officials. The contents of some of the
text messages, which he claimed were “written in poorly-worded English
language” read; “we want to inform innocent ones to vacate EFCC
building, NASS, and some other commissions in FCT.” “Farida is not
fighting corruption but wickeding poor masses for nothing.” “We know
that Jonathan cannot understand what we mean because he don’t know the
cost of garri in the market now. We must pick her life or death even
those big officers she is using against us else she is removed. We are
ready now”.

Mr Babafemi noted
that the group threatened to bomb the EFCC on November 6, accusing the
Commission of “disorganizing banks, firms, coys, REA and block their
account since 2008.” “On November 6 FCT will smoke, big and small will
run and vacate”.

He said the agency
will seriously address the succession of threats, “the Commission and
its officials are already used to the daily threats coming from those
that are scared of facing the consequence of their actions. But the
latest dimension to it is what the Commission is taking seriously and
determined to track down those behind them and smoke them out”

While adding that
“we will do everything needed to protect our officials and offices,” he
also warned that “the disgruntled elements, hiding under the cover of
some public establishments, to act as agents of terrorists to fight a
battle they cannot win …will soon be unveiled and their troubles
compounded.”

EFCC’s officials have come under severe attacks, even assassination
in recent times with the murder of the head of the forensic unit in
Kaduna State in September and the attack on some agents of the
commission in South East Nigeria.