The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu has sounded a note of warning to Lawyers in the country stating that regardless of their size or status they would be taken on by the EFCC if found to be fraudulent.
He said this at a one-day workshop themed “Anti-Corruption, Ethics of the Legal Profession and Justice Sector”, organised by the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), in collaboration with the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACC) at the Rockview Hotel, Abuja.
He said, “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”
He stated that everyone was a stakeholder in the fight against corruption and that lawyers had a major role to play.
“We consider everybody a stakeholder, as the EFCC does not have monopoly of knowledge to defeat all shades of graft” he said
He urged lawyers to fight for justice and stop circumventing the laws to get the best results.
He again reiterated his commitment to the fight against corruption saying “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”.