The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is not joking as far
as high profile corruption is concerned. They are set to reopen all the
corruption cases involving top politicians which had either been
delayed or stopped through "fraudulent" perpetual court injunctions.
According
to a top management officer of the EFCC, their hands were been tied as
the court shielded such individuals from prosecution in the past, but
they are ready to go all out against corrupt men and woman now with the
backing of a no-nonsense President Muhammadu Buhai.
The EFCC man said: “Let it be made clear that EFCC will go after all
cases that are deserving of investigation. There is nothing like
perpetual injunctions anymore in our criminal administration justice
code."
One of such politicians they are going after is
Peter Odili, a former governor of Rivers whose wife a judge in the
Supreme Court. He had secured a perpetual injunction from a judge
barring the EFCC from probing his eight-year tenure over graft
allegations leveled against him.
The anti-graft commission had
filed an appeal against the ruling but it has made no progress since it
was filed over four years ago, due to complicity in high places in the
past administration.
Nothing will stop the Ibrahim Magu-led team from reopening Odili’s case and bringing him to book.
“We
have a duty to investigate all cases since we are empowered by the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to investigate all such
corruption-related cases and that is what we are asked to do.
“We
are empowered by Section 15 of the new Criminal Justice Administration
Act to investigate all cases irrespective of injunctions. We cannot be
stopped.”
Others to be summoned include ex-Minister of Finance,
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and some former officials of the Central Bank of
Nigeria, CBN, who handled the disbursement of funds to Sambo Dasuki.
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Okonjo-Iweala, Peter Odili, Others In Fresh Trouble
Description : The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is not joking as far as high profile corruption is concerned. They are set to reope...
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