The Department of State Security has stormed the Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, stopping officials from entering the anti-graft agency’s office in Ikoyi, Lagos.
According to reliable sources in both agencies, the DSS and the EFCC have been feuding about control of the premises for some time.
An excellent source corroborated the situation in a telephone interview that DSS operatives stormed the office around 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday and refused to leave despite dialogue between operatives from both agencies.
According to an EFCC official who talked with our correspondent on the condition of anonymity,
“There’s been a running battle between us and the DSS over who owns the office because the office was used by them before the EFCC came on board and it was handed over to us.
“But it’s been an administrative issue, and the matter is not in court and hasn’t caused any fracas before now. But we don’t understand why they have to block our office and deny our officials access when a new government just came in.
“The office used to be ours, and we have been fighting over it for years now, and the EFCC knows,” a DSS source said.
Meanwhile, spokespersons for both agencies, Wilson Uwujaren of the EFCC, and Dr Peter Afunaya of the DSS did not respond to inquiries by our correspondent over the development.
(The PUNCH)