EFCC Raids The Sun Office

The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday raided the premises of The Sun Publishing Limited, publishers of The Sun Newspapers.According to a statement by The

 Sun, the operatives claimed the raid was on ‘orders from above’.The media firm owned by a former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, had been the subject of a forfeiture order, obtained by the EFCC in a suit against Kalu.The firm said it had filed an appeal, which was still pending in court and was shocked that its premises would be invaded by the Commission.The statement claimed the raid which lasted for one hour subjected workers to crude intimidation, psychological and emotional trauma.The statement said, “Law-abiding staff of The Sun Publishing Limited resumed work this morning, June 12, 2017, to behold heavily armed EFCC operatives in our company. They claimed to have “orders from above” to seal up the premises of The Sun Publishing Limited.“At gunpoint, they ordered our security personnel to take them around the company premises, after which they proceeded to prevent staff from either entering or leaving the premises, and disrupted our circulation process.“For one gruelling hour, the EFCC operatives subjected our staff to crude intimidation, psychological and emotional trauma, even as some of the men accused our organisation of publishing pro-Biafra, Boko Haram, and Niger Delta militant stories, as they surveyed our premises.