Nigeria’s EFCC, inter agency security in public face-off in Asokoro, Abuja

The simmering inter-agency war between the anti-graft agency, Economic Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, on the one hand and the State Security Service, SSS, and the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, burst into the open early Tuesday when a combined team of EFCC officials and police officers attempted to arrest the former heads of the two agencies, according to report by PremiumTimes.

The EFCC officials tried to arrest the former head of the NIA, Ayo Oke, and former head of the SSS, Ita Ekpeyong, from their homes on Mamman Nasir Street in the Asokoro district of Abuja but were resisted by armed security agents of the two agencies.

This has led to a continued standoff between armed security officers from all the four agencies as at the time of this report causing a traffic mayhem in the area and an uncertain security outcome from the situation.

Details later….