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In the early hours of Wednesday August 16th, some unknown gunmen attacked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) headquarters in Abuja.

Wilson Uwujaren, a spokesperson for the EFCC made a statement regarding this incident available to journalists.

Uwujaren said: "The group of heavily armed bandits invaded the office at about 05.00 hours and began shooting into the premises, damaging vehicles parked in the premises in the process. However, the attack was repelled by guards on duty." 

"The hoodlums escaped in a getaway vehicle but not without leaving a message; a white envelope dropped by the fleeing attackers was found to contain a death threat addressed to Ishaku Sharu, a senior investigator with the Commission.

"Ishaku who heads the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Fraud Section is in charge of corruption investigation involving several politically exposed persons and retired military brass hats.

"The attack on the Zone 7 office which houses the Commission's AMCON Desk, Procurement Fraud and Foreign Exchange Malpractices Sections, is coming few weeks after another investigator, Austin Okwor was shot and wounded by unknown assailants in Port Harcourt, Rivers State," Uwujaren added.