Naira Re-designing: More Serving Governors Under EFCC Watch For Stashed Cash– Abdulrasheed Bawa

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has increased the number of governors under its watch for suspected stashing of cash.

The EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa made this known on Thursday at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja shortly after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.

He told the press that the number has increased from the three earlier announced by the commission but failed to give the specific new number of Governors that the anti-graft agency is monitoring.

Justifying why he didn’t give a specific number, Bawa said he doesn’t want to be misquoted.

It would be recalled that the EFCC boss had stated yesterday that the commission is monitoring three governors over suspected stashed money.

Bawa said the serving governors are making plan to launder stashed billions of Naira through table payment of salaries to workers.

This is also coming a few days after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced that the country’s currency would be redesigned to address many issues.

The apex bank said the re-designed notes would be released on December 15, adding that Nigerians have up to January 31, 2023, to deposit the old notes in banks.

The EFCC Chair who failed to reveal the identity of the three governors, said two of them are from the North, while the 3rd one is from the southern part of the country.

According to him, the three governors have concluded plans to inject the money into the system through table payment of their state workers’ salaries.