The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has raised an alarm over what it described as  a plot by some forces to scuttle the nation’s anti-graft war by destabilising the agency ahead of the 2011 elections.

The commission, in a statement, said it is concerned that there has been a rise of late in the number of sponsored media reports either against the leadership or the work of the agency all in a bid to derail or distract it from its statutory responsibilities.

“We have noted with concern the increasing number of spinned reports all lacking facts but founded on speculations being circulated to cause confusion as well as distraction in EFCC and ultimately derail the nation’s anti-graft war.

“A clear example of such reports was published on Saturday , December 18, 2010  which details imaginary moves by the EFCC chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri, to avert an alleged impending removal. With the exception of the names of individuals mentioned, the report is an embodiment of lies weaved together by a hatchet writer to satisfy his sponsor’s self-serving expectations.

“We will like to state that the recent redeployment of some police officers in and out of the commission was announced by the EFCC in a statement issued on Friday December 10 and adequately reported by the media the following day as against the misleading claim that it was announced by the inspector general of police. It is ridiculous that a report that took two weeks to investigate cannot recall any commendable achievement of the EFCC since Waziri took charge in 2007 as claimed by the writer”.