EFCC’s Action is Harmful To Yahaya Bello’s Safety – CSOs
Again, some frontline anti-corruption civil society organizations (CSOs) have said with the way the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had handled its case against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, especially the threats from the lawyers and the commission’s boss, it was justifiable to say that Bello’s life might not be safe in the custody of the agency as being expressed by his supporters. “And we believe this is a legitimate fear.”
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They advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to toe the path of the rule of law and not continue to give credence to the impression that its mandate is being politicized by some interests. The CSOs said such intentions are neither patriotic nor altruistic.
The groups said the ongoing controversy surrounding the commission’s handling of its allegations against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, “connotes nothing but that.”
The scores of activists, who gathered in Lagos yesterday for a press conference on the state of Nigeria’s fight against corruption, noted that “the principle of justice presupposes that its scales are always balanced and it is blind to personality, creed, gender, race or status.”
They specifically pointed out that what had led to the overheating of the polity was a simple factor – the unwillingness of the EFCC to obey a court and follow the due processes of law.
