The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied a report claiming that the Commission has indicted all the governors of the 36 states of the Federation and the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in the ongoing investigation of the reimbursement paid to state governments by the Federal Government for excessive deduction charged on account of the Paris Club and other international loans.

In a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja signed by the Head, Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujiaren, EFCC said that its attention “has been drawn to a report, ‘Nigerian State Governors, Senate President Saraki Pocketed Billions of Naira from Paris Loan Refund’, which appeared in the online news portal, Sahara Reporters, on Sunday February 12, 2017.”

EFCC stressed that no state Governor or Senate President “has been indicted so far by the investigation which is still at a preliminary stage and the insinuations about cover up by some officials of the Commission are untrue as there is no incentive to do so.”

The Commission therefore implored the media “to be circumspect in the reportage of this delicate issue in order not to jeopardise ongoing investigation, and be assured that they would be fully briefed of developments as soon as breakthrough is achieved.”

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