Lawyers, Media Frustrating Corruption War, EFCC Laments

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Lawyers, Media  Frustrating Corruption War, EFCC Laments
 
As the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is being bashed for being lawless in the fight against corruption,  human rights and civil society groups, including the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the acting Chairman of the anti-graft commission, Ibrahim Magu, today accused lawyers and journalists in for allegedly conniving with criminals to frustrate the war against corruption.

The commission boss who made the allegation at a rally by a coalition of civil society groups in Abuja, accused lawyers of allegedly receiving part of the stolen public funds in order to fight the EFCC and disrupt the war against corrupt practices in the country.

According to Magu, “One of the biggest challenges we have in the effective prosecution of the war on corruption is that many of these respectable senior lawyers who Nigeria has been very kind to, who went to good schools in the country when Nigeria was good; many of them on government scholarship are helping corrupt persons.

“When we have corruption cases of people who have stolen food from our children; when we have cases of people who have stolen money meant to build hospitals and buy drugs; when we have cases of people who have stolen all the money meant to buy guns for our soldiers to fight Boko Haram, when we have all these cases of wicked people who have stolen Nigeria’s money, they run to these same senior lawyers, give them part of the stolen money and mobilise them to fight us in order to delay us in court and to deny Nigerians justice. These are the people who do not want justice for the common man.

“The other day, 34 Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) fought against only one small EFCC lawyer in court and he defeated all of them! What we are doing today is not by our power, it is the power of the Nigerian people and the power of God behind us.’’

He did not also spare journalists in his accusation, saying: “Corrupt people also hire journalists to abuse us every day. They say we are not doing the work according to the law, but that is not true.

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