A former top investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Danjuma Mohammed, was shot dead today in the Gwarimpa area of Abuja by assassins who invaded his home. Mohammed, a Deputy Superintendent of Police who worked as an investigator with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), was a close associate of the exiled former EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu.
He was also one of the first casualties of the power play in the EFCC when Mrs. Farida Waziri took over the reigns of the commission three years ago. Along with Ibrahim Magu and several other experienced investigators at the EFCC, Mohammed was sent back to the police by Mrs. Waziri.
But Saharareporters sources said the FIRS found Mohammed to be a valuable tool and had recruited him to engage in investigating and prosecuting tax defaulters. He reportedly met stiff resistance in the department handling the job in the FIRS before he undertook its reorganization.
Mohammed's assassination would be the second against financial crimes investigators. In November 2009, Abubakar Umar, a lawyer and special assistant to Ahmeed Al Mustapha, registrar of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), was found brutally assassinated and burned in his car in Abuja. Abubakar had been trailed by unknown assailants after he left work. He was abducted, shot to death, and set ablaze. His badly burnt body was found near Utako Market in the opposite direction of his residence in Maitama. Before he was killed, Abuabakar had had some disagreements with the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Usman Bayero Nafada, over land ownership.
Police claim they are looking into this case, but such proclamations in past assassinations have amounted to nothing.
The family of late Abuabakar Abba Umar is offering N10m to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest of his killers. Abuabakar Abba Umar until his death was an Assistant Director and the Special Assistant to the registrar general at the Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja. Mr Umar was also a board member of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
He was trailed by trailed by his assailants on 11th November 2009 who shot him and burnt him in his Toyota Camry car. An autopsy carried out at the National Hospital Abuja revealed a bullet wound in his skull. Initially, the police believed that it was accident. However, after the autopsy report was released, some suspects were arrested but no breakthrough was made in finding his killers.
The family of the later Umar is offering the N10m in an effort to assist the law enforcement agencies in apprehending his killers. Anyone with useful information should contact the
mobile number: 0706 7868 334 or email abuabba67@yahoo.co.uk
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