EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu speaking at the event
Speaking at the opening of a one-day workshop organised by the
Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) at the Rockview hotel in Abuja on Tuesday,
the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, said the anti-graft agency will soon go after
senior lawyers who aid and abet financial and economic crimes.
In a statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, Magu said
at the workshop organised in collaboration with the Presidential
Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACC), that the EFCC could not
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,” he said.
The EFCC boss urged legal practitioners to always play by the rule
and avoid being used by corrupt elements to pervert justice, adding that “what is important is the interest of the nation which should be placed above any other interest”.
Ibrahim Magu who commended the bar for being good partners in the
fight against graft, however decried the attitudes of some lawyers who
compromise on their jobs for criminals to escape justice, adding that
lawyers have a greater stake in the war more than any other class of
professional.
In reiterating his commitment towards fighting money laundering, the EFCC boss warned that, “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. 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,” he said.
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