ECONOMIC And
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has denied being the source of the allegation
that Justice Abdul Kafarati had been bribed to rule in favour of Senate
President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.
Following the development, Justice Kafarati
of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had accordingly declined ruling in the case
brought before him by Senate President over charges bothering on false and
failure to declare assets in line with the code of Conduct of public
officeholders in the country.
In a
statement by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, he said that it is necessary to
remove the Commission from the rumour bothering on the inducement of the
federal high Court Justice in relation to the President of the Senate.
“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 organisation 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”,
he said.
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