A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has no right to question the Kogi State on how it spends its money.
This is coming after the Kogi state governor was linked to a fraud case against his nephew.
Aliyu Bello, the nephew to Governor Yaya Bello, was arraigned with another person over alleged money laundering and fraud to the tune of N10 billion.
Speaking at a press conference tagged “The Rule of Law in Nigeria Today” Agbakoba said the EFCC was going beyond its constitutionally provided powers.
In his words, “Like the current trending case where the EFCC arrested some people in Kogi state on allegations of money laundering, I believe that case should not be the business of the EFCC, at all. Is it their business how Kogi spends their money? Even if it is their business, is it their lawful business to make that inquiry?
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“The Supreme Court has recently said in one of its judgement that the EFCC cannot be a jack of all trades and that they should concentrate on what the law empowers them to do under Section 46 of their Act.
“It is not the duty of the EFCC to be chasing the Kogi State Government and threatening to storm the State House to seize documents or harass the Accountant-General of the state.
“What the EFCC is currently doing is turning itself to a one-man Robin Hood riot gang. That must not be allowed and that is the impunity that I refer to,” he said.
