16 of the funniest tweets by the EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was not set up to amuse Nigerians but the anti-graft agency has been posting some of the funniest Twitter messages this side of the blogosphere in recent weeks.

It started long before that classic response to the freezing of Nigerians’ Mavrodi Mondial Movement (MMM) accounts on Tuesday.

The identity of the EFCC social media handlers remain a closely guided secret but we are guessing Osita Nwajah, its director of public affairs and a CNN Journalist of the year award winner, and Wilson Uwujaren, its spokesman and former editor with Tempo magazine, have something to do with it.

Here are 16 of our funniest tweets from Nigeria’s leading anti-graft agency.

  1. When someone requested for a loan from recovered loot

2. When someone said he was not pained over a Twitter exchange with the EFCC

3. When someone said his landlord ran away with his house rent

4. When someone said he would find out the person running the EFCC Twitter account

5. When someone said he likes the EFCC

6. When someone asked which he should consider between 419 and MMM

7. When someone queried a government agency for tweeting like its account has been hacked

8. When someone suggested the salary of the person handling the EFCC Twitter account has been invested in MMM

9. When someone compared Bet9ja to MMM

10. When a newspaper wrote that EFCC mocked MMM participants on Twitter

11. When someone blamed EFCC for not stopping MMM

12. When someone asked why there is no formal uniform for persons arrested by EFCC

13. When someone asked what happens if an EFCC official is indicted for corruption

14. When someone asked if EFCC officials have any clue who Kurt Kobain was

15. When someone accused EFCC of witch-hunting PDP members instead of fighting corruption

16. When someone accused EFCC of going after the small fish in the fight against corruption