The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched an attack on the judiciary and media, accusing the two institutions of aiding and abetting corruption in recent times.
According to a statement signed by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, on Wednesday, the commission’s management is going frustrated by the string of court rulings that were unfavourable to the anti-graft agency in the past week.
He also expressed concern over the alleged domination of a section of the media by some ‘dark forces’.
The EFCC spokesman added that there were indications that the media and judiciary were out to protect corrupt elements in the society and derail the anti-corruption battle.
“For instance, all through last week, some courts issued a string of anti-EFCC rulings looking like calculated attempts to derail the anti-corruption war, even as there were indications of the capture of a prominent section of the media by dark forces,” the statement read in part.
The EFCC spokesman also slammed the Senate over its bid to amend certain aspects of the anti-corruption law to allegedly reduce the power of anti-corruption institutions.
“The picture of organized corruption marshalling its evil forces to launch a sustained fight- back becomes clearer, if cognizance is taken of the bewildering insistence of the Senate to carry on with the ill- advised amendment of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Act as well as the inexplicable provisions proposed for amendment of the Anti-Money Laundering Act,” Uwujaren stated.
