EFCC denies link between Ilorin raid, Kwara Polytechnic student protest

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dismissed claims that its caller cognition successful Ilorin triggered a pupil protestation astatine Kwara State Polytechnic, describing specified reports arsenic contrived and an outright misrepresentation.

In a connection connected Thursday, the anti-graft bureau said operatives of its Ilorin Zonal Directorate carried retired a sting cognition connected Wednesday, March 24, 2026, astatine 2 buildings successful the Agbede assemblage of Ilorin, Kwara State, based connected quality linking the locations to suspected net fraud.

According to the commission, the cognition led to the apprehension of 30 suspects, including six students of Kwara State Polytechnic.

“The profiling of the students showed that each six are actively progressive successful net fraud,” the EFCC stated.

It added that 8 vehicles suspected to beryllium proceeds of transgression were recovered during the raid, alongside mobile phones and laptops.

The bureau stressed that the cognition was conducted wholly extracurricular the premises of the polytechnic and did not interfere with immoderate world oregon administrative activities.

“The sting cognition was not...