EFCC denies role in Kwara Poly protest amid backlash

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has denied immoderate engagement successful the caller protestation astatine Kwara State Polytechnic, insisting that its cognition successful Ilorin was not connected to activities wrong the institution.

The Commission disclosed this successful a connection posted connected its authoritative X grip pursuing days of reactions trailing the protestation earlier reported astir the school.

According to the EFCC, operatives from its Ilorin Zonal Directorate carried retired a sting cognition connected March 24, 2026 astatine Agbede assemblage successful Ilorin, targeting 2 buildings linked to suspected net fraudsters.

The bureau said the cognition led to the apprehension of 30 suspects, including six students of the Polytechnic, adding that vehicles, phones and laptops suspected to beryllium proceeds of transgression were recovered.

“The sting cognition was not remotely connected to the Polytechnic. No entranceway was made into the premises of the instauration and determination was nary disruption of immoderate enactment of the school,” the connection said.

The Commission further described arsenic false, videos and claims suggesting that its operatives entered the schoolhouse oregon triggered the protest.

“Any video successful circulation linking students protestation with the cognition of the Commission is contrived and outright misrepresentation,” it added.