(EFCC) is advising all past and current treasury
looters
– The anti-graft agency said all corrupt
individuals will have to “vomit’’ all they stole in
order for justice to reign
The EFCC’s director of public affairs, Osita Nwaja,
said this statement, while advising all treasury
looters, when he granted an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, June 29 in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria.
Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC)
Nwaja reaffirmed the anti-graft agency’s total
commitment to bring corrupt office holders to face the full weight of the law.
The EFCC stated: “Vomit what you stole. We gave
you this thing to keep and you ate it and then
you are claiming right. You are throwing impunity
at our faces and that is not right. And that is
what EFCC is saying. It is not right.
“We must bring them to justice. The accused
persons themselves they have stolen billions. And
then they will go and hire all the lawyers they
can and this is where we have the problems with
some of these lawyers.
“Recently we took some of them to court and
then they appeared in support of themselves.
“Over 100 Senior Advocates of Nigeria to defend
one man (while referring to one of the political
office holders). We are talking about 103 chambers in defence of one man.”
“That is immoral to say the very least.”
While explaining that the war against corruption
and corrupt-related issues is the responsibility of
all Nigerians, Nwaja said: “We hear about all the
crimes and all the criminals that are being
investigated and prosecuted by the EFCC.
“Many of these people have direct link to the
common man. “The common man does not see
always because they try to blur the line of that
linkage how that man who is stealing billions and
trillions relates to his very callous regrettable
situation in life.
“How the money meant for road, money for
hospitals to take care of pregnant women, to send
children to school are disappearing into people’s
accounts, and people’s pockets and people’s
stomach.
“Just a few people and their families and their
friends and their associates and they are holding
the Nigerian people to ransom.”
A lot of civil society groups are becoming more
interested in the fight against corruption in the
country, as the federal government was urged by
a group, the Centre for the Vulnerable and the
Underprivileged (CENTREP) to publish the names of treasury looters alongside the amount recovered from them.
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