The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday alleged that corrupt people were using the Senate, the judiciary and a section of the media to thwart the commission’s anti-corruption war..
The anti-graft agency said this in a statement by its spokesperson, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, while reacting to the decoration of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, as an ‘Anti-corruption Ambassador’ by one of its officers.
The EFCC said the dubious title given to Ekweremadu at a time when the Senate was trying to amend the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Act was a clear act of corruption fighting back.
The statement read in part, “The picture of organised corruption marshalling its evil forces to launch a sustained fight-back becomes clearer if cognisance is taken of the bewildering insistence of the Senate to carry on with the ill-advised amendment of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Act as well as the inexplicable provisions proposed for amendment of the Anti-Money Laundering Act.”
The anti-graft agency further alleged that some courts as well as sections of the media were being used by corrupt forces.
“For instance, all through last week, some courts issued a string of anti-EFCC rulings looking like calculated attempts to derail the anti-corruption war, even as there were indications of the capture of a prominent section of the media by dark forces,” the EFCC said.
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