Explaining her plea to our reporter, ’Nengi, who used to offer catering services at the EFCC Academy in Karu Abuja, said her problem started when her shop was locked up with both perishable and non perishable goods and she was asked to start paying for rent for the space she used at the academy, which she explained, was never part of the agreement when she took over the canteen in 2010. Nengi said she made efforts to explain to the management of the EFCC that her agreement with them was to use the EFCC space and offer good services to the staff without paying any rent as it has been the situation with the EFCC food vendor before her. She noted that sometime in 2011, she signed an agreement, which would change her tenancy agreement and compel her to pay some token for maintenance of the facilities but it was never considered a rent and subsequently, in 2013, the EFCC locked up her canteen and sized her properties, claiming violation of agreement. The cook explained that even after getting the intervention of former EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, who instructed the staff to allow her move her things from the counter where they were locked and start her business afresh on a new agreement, some individuals in the EFCC refused to carryout the instuction. While lamenting further, Nengi, particularly pleaded with the EFCC to release her goods, books, cloths and other valuables, which were locked up and pay her for damages after locking up her things for over two years now. According to her, “I have been offering this service for sometime now and it has always been free to operate a staff canteen. I operate one canteen in Central Bank of Nigeria and my colleagues in NNPC are also operating on a free basis. There has never been any story about payment. “When the issue of payment came, I told the EFCC management that I cannot pay because the person I met there was not paying and it is a general practice across cooperate bodies in Abuja. “After the intervention of the former chairman of the EFCC, who ordered his staff to open the place for me to continue with my business on a new agreement of little payment, and up until now, nothing has been done about that.” The woman, who insisted that the current chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu is not aware of the case, called on Magu to intervene in this issue and allow her to take her belongings as she does not have the ability to battling with the government or any of its agencies.]]>