EFCC BLASTS NBA PRESIDENT
OVER CALLS FOR REFORMS
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August 28, 2016
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or daring to suggest limiting the
power of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigation,
the newly-elected National President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Mr.
Abubakar Mahmoud, has come under serious attack by the commission. Mahmoud and
Magu Mahmoud and Magu The commission, in a strongly worded statement by its
Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, described the suggestion which Mahmoud made at his inauguration
on Friday, as self-serving and meant to protect a cabal of untouchables who can
only be investigated but never prosecuted for corruption.
Wilson said: “The
EFCC appreciates the NBA’s acknowledgement of the Commission’s strategic place
in the fight against corruption in Nigeria and the modest achievements that it
has recorded so far.
It also welcomes the suggestion for reform. “As the Acting
Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, has repeatedly started in his public pronouncements,
the agency is open to suggestions that will improve its operations as it cannot
pretend to have a monopoly of ideas on how to fight corruption.
“Nevertheless,
the Commission views with concern, the call by the NBA president that the EFCC
be stripped of its prosecutorial powers. According to him, Read more
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