How EFCC report quickend Oyo-Ita’s removal by Buhari – TheNigerialawyer

*EFCC submitted report on Tuesday

President Muhammadu Buhari last night (Wednesday) removed the
embattled Head of Serive of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, from
office and named Dr Folashade Yemi-Esan, as her replacement as the
Head of Service of the Federation.

Although Buhari named Yemi-Esan as Acting Head of Service of the
Federation, it was learnt that the removal of Oyo-Ita, who had been
under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) for many weeks, was a tacit means by the Presidency for her
to exit the service quietly.

A top source confirmed to Vanguard^[1], not
TheNigerialawyer last night that the removal of Oyo-Ita followed
the acceptance of the report by the EFCC, which submitted its
finding on the embattled HoS only on Tuesday to the Presidency.

It will be recalled that Oyo-Ita had opted to resign
quietly in August shortly after the EFCC had opened a probe
into how she alledgely engaged in contract scam and knowledge of
how project cash of over N600 million was being kept away by her
aide, although she denied all the allegations.

At that time, the Presidency had asked her to withhold her
resignation letter pending further directives from the corridors of
power.

In the statement last night, the Presidency asked Oyo-Ita to
proceed on indefinite leave to ‘allow for the conclusition’ of the
investigation being carried out on her by the EFCC.

Although the report of the EFCC was not made public, a source
told our correspodent last night that the Pressidency would not
return Oyo-Ita to the office but had given her what it referred to
as ‘soft-landing’ by quietly easing her out of the public space
based on interventions from various quarters.

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