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Breaking News: Top EFCC Investigator Shot By Gunmen In Port Harcourt by exlinklodge: 4:35pm On Jun 28, 2017
The anti-grafts agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has said a top operative of the anti-graft commission has been shot by unknown gunmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

A statement on Wednesday by EFCC, spokesman Wilson Uwujaren said the investigator Mr. Austin Okwor escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen opened fire on him on Saturday June 24th 2017, shortly after closing from work.

Uwujaren explained that;

“Mr. Austin Okwor an operative in the Property Fraud Section of the EFCC Zonal office in Port Harcourt, had closed late for the day and as he left office, he was suddenly accosted by a gang of daredevil hoodlums who opened fire on him.”

“Luckily for him, he was able to shake off his assailants but not without sustaining some bullet wounds as they kept firing at him. “He was rushed to a private hospital in Port Harcourt where he is receiving treatment. According to Ishaq Salihu, Head of the Zonal office, the incident has already been reported to the Police in Port Harcourt.

According to Daily Trust, Okwor is one of the operatives investigating some sensitive cases including that pertaining to corrupt judicial officials. Uwujaren added that, “Before the incident, Okwor had been receiving threat messages one of such messages which he received sometime in May 2017 was reported to the Police.”

He noted that, “This incident underlines the hazards which operatives of the Commission are daily exposed to in the discharge of their duties.” He added that, “In 2010, precisely September 14, the head of the Commission’s Forensic Unit, Abdullahi Muazu was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in Kaduna.”

He said, “Six months earlier a team of prosecutors returning to Enugu after a court appearance in Owerri, Imo state was attacked by gunmen who opened fire on them.” “Sergeant Eze Edoga the police escort was cut down while a senior counsel with the Commission, Joseph Uzor was critically wounded but survived,” Uwujaren stated.


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Re: Breaking News: Top EFCC Investigator Shot By Gunmen In Port Harcourt by Mynd44: 4:35pm On Jun 28, 2017
Re: Breaking News: Top EFCC Investigator Shot By Gunmen In Port Harcourt by olayinks007(m): 4:43pm On Jun 28, 2017
Aja to ba wole to ekun..
Re: Breaking News: Top EFCC Investigator Shot By Gunmen In Port Harcourt by nototribalist: 4:44pm On Jun 28, 2017
Fire down, no time. Probably sent by magu to spy on mama peace

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