Parents of the freed Obafemi Awolowo University students, on Friday, urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to remove their children’s names, fingerprints, and photographs from the Anti-graft database.
They also requested an apology from the anti-graft agency for what they described as an illegal crackdown on their wards.
EFCC on November 1, 2023, released 58 students.
The Parents’ Coalition Against EFCC Invasion of OAU Students’ Hostels urged that the anti-graft agency remove their children’s names, photographs, identities, and biometrics from all EFCC databases and social media platforms.
According to him:
“To this end, we expect the announcement of the removal of their (children’s) names followed by the issuance of the public apology, and this must be advertised in leading national newspapers and circulated on all EFCC social media handles, websites and all news agencies in the country.
“We also called on the agency to conclude investigations on students who have been released, and whose devices, including academic tools, are still being held.
“We call on the EFCC to release and clear our children on whom nothing has been found unconditionally and without delay. We demand that the anti-graft agency expunge their names, pictures, identities and biometrics and everything about them from all EFCC records and all social media platforms.”
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