Nigeria, May 16 -- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied allegations that its operatives brutalised staff of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital during a controversial operation that triggered outrage among health workers and disrupted activities at the facility earlier this week.

In a statement issued on Friday on its Facebook page, the anti-graft agency said its operatives were at the hospital on 12 May solely for an administrative assignment to authenticate a medical document in an ongoing fraud case, and not to arrest any hospital staff.

The commission added that, contrary to reports circulating on social media and among medical workers, no hospital staff member was arrested or detained during the incide...