We’ll Start Going After Lawyers Who Help Looters Escape Justice - EFCC


Category: Nigeria National News

Ibrahim Magu, the acting chairman of EFCC, has said the anti-graft agency will soon go after senior lawyers who aid and abet financial and economic crimes.

He 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 on Tuesday.

According to a statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, Magu said;

“We consider everybody a stakeholder, as the EFCC does not have monopoly of knowledge to defeat all shades of graft,” he said.

He also urged legal practitioners to always play by the rule and avoid being used by corrupt elements to prevent justice, adding that “what is important is the interest of the nation which should be placed above any other interest”.

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,” he said.

“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.”

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