The acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, says that the antigraft
agency will soon start going after lawyers who aid and abet financial
and economic crimes. Magu 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 yesterday Tuesday July 12th.
A statement issued by EFCC spokesperson, Wilson
Uwujaren states that Magu said at the workshop 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. 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
