• Directs EFCC to prosecute culprits

From Godwin Tsa, Abuja

THE Federal Government has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Com­mission (EFCC) and other security agencies to investi­gate, identify and prosecute those behind the crisis ex­perienced in the foreign ex­change operations.
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), who dis­closed this yesterday at a press briefing, said some nefarious and unscrupulous elements are deliberately sabotaging the economic agenda of the President Mu­hammadu Buhari govern­ment.
The minister specifically blamed the current state of the naira on the activities of unscrupulous elements who, he said, were hiding under the cloak of “market forces” to deliberately un­dermine the national curren­cy. He disclosed that those targeted in the investigation include regulatory agencies, businessmen and Bureau De Change operators, who he alleged, have been sabo­taging the economic agenda of the present administra­tion. Besides, the minister noted that as a responsible government “we cannot afford to allow such a situation anchored on un­lawful alliance and crimi­nal enterprise to continue unchecked, when it is ap­parent that its primary ob­jective is to sabotage the economic agenda of the present administration.