EVERLY HILLS, July 12, (THEWILL) – The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has declared that the agency will not spare any Senior Advocate of Nigeria or others linked with money laundering or corrupt practices.
He said this at the opening of a one-day workshop organised by the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) in collaboration with the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACC) at the Rockview hotel in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to a statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC Spokesman, Magu said at the workshop that the EFCC could not stamp out corruption in the country without the support of all stakeholders adding that the anti-graft agency will soon go after senior lawyers who aid and abet financial and economic crimes.
“We will not stop going after people who are involved in laundering money. It doesn’t matter who you are, the law is a respecter of nobody especially those who commit crime,” Magu declared.
“Whether you are EFCC, SAN or whatever, sooner or later we will start going after people who buy properties with stolen funds as well as people who help others to escape justice.
“The EFCC cannot stamp out corruption in the country without the support of all stakeholders.
“We consider everybody a stakeholder, as the EFCC does not have monopoly of knowledge to defeat all shades of graft.
“Legal practitioners should always play by the rule and avoid being used by corrupt elements to pervert justice. What is important is the interest of the nation which should be placed above any other interest.”
Story by David Oputah
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