I Will Go After SANs, Judges Who Help Looters – Magu

[caption id="attachment_9908" align="alignnone" width="699"]Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the EFCC.[/caption]

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has declared war on abusers of public offices as well as legal practitioners who help looters escape conviction.

Magu who spoke on Tuesday during a one-day workshop in Abuja tagged “Anti-Corruption, Ethics of the Legal Profession and Justice Sector”, organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), advised legal practitioners to desist from helping “corrupt elements” escape justice.

“Whether you are 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”, Magu declared.

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

“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”.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, who spoke through Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, urged lawyers to have a change of attitude and embrace “the right ethical path” to help fight corruption in Nigeria.

“You have a role to play as an individual and it is when we all change our attitude that we can see it reflected in the society. No doubt, the legal profession is crucial in the maintenance of a high quality of justice delivery within the justice system and such success or failure of our fight against corruption will depend on our willingness to take the right ethical path”, the CJN said.

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