The
attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been
drawn to media reports on the decision of Justice Abdul Kafarati of the
Federal High Court, Abuja to decline ruling in the fundamental human
rights enforcement case brought before him by Senate President, Bukola
Saraki.
The
judge blamed his decision to disqualify himself from the case on a
Tuesday March 21, 2016 report in an online news medium, alleging that he
had been bribed to rule in Saraki’s favour. Justice Kafarati, according
reports in Thisday Newspaper of March 23, 2016 claimed the online
platform quoted the EFCC as the source of its information.
Against
this background, it has become necessary to state that the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC had no hand in the report which is
entirely the imagination of the authors.
All
allusions to the Commission’s investigation or documents in the said
publication should be disregarded. At no time did the EFCC share
intelligence or revealed the content of any dossier it may have on any
judge for that matter with any media organization either in Nigeria or
abroad.
The
Commission wishes to state for the umpteenth time, that it believes in
the rule of law and will not take extra-legal measures to ridicule or
embarrass any member of the public that may or may not be under
investigation. The court is the final arbiter in cases of corruption.
What the law expects of the Commission, which it has been doing, is to
charge people investigated and indicted of any offence under the
relevant laws to court. There is no other way.
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