(Being text
of speech delivered by Ag. Chairman, EFCC to a coalition of Civil Society
Groups that rallied to the EFCC Headquarters, Abuja, 16/02/2016)
One of the big challenges we have in the effective
prosecution of the war on corruption, is that of very senior lawyers who
Nigeria has been very kind to: They who went to good schools here, when Nigeria
was good, many of them, on government scholarship; they who Nigeria has given
so much opportunity.
When we have corruption cases, cases
of people who have stolen food from the mouths of our children; when we have
cases of people who have stolen money meant to build hospitals and buy drugs;
when we have cases of people who have stolen all the money meant to buy guns
for our soldiers to fight Boko Haram, when we have all these cases of wicked
people who have stolen Nigeria's money, they run to these same senior lawyers,
give them part of the stolen money and mobilise them to fight us, to delay us
in court and to deny Nigerians of justice. These are the people who do not want
justice for the common man.
The other day, 34 Senior Advocates of
Nigeria fought against only one small EFCC lawyer in court and he defeated all
of them! What we are doing today is not
by our power, it is the power of the Nigerian people and the power of God
behind us!
Corrupt people hire journalists to
abuse us every day, they say we are not doing the work according to the
law. But, that is not true. There
is no agency that follows the law more than EFCC. None.
Before we arrest you, or seize your property or do anything to you, we
check the law, we go to court and get court order. That is why we are winning; that is why we
are defeating them everyday.
We want the Nigerian people to
continue to support us, continue to support Mr. President's war on corruption.
We have many corruption cases in
court. We are getting them every day from everywhere and we are recovering
stolen money and taking corrupt people to court.
The money we have recovered and the money
we are going to get back from them -billions and billions of Naira- is being
paid back to government and will be used to do what it was originally meant for
-to build hospitals, send our children to school, build roads and railways,
create employment and defend our country.
We have no other country than Nigeria.
This war is the war of the people.
Apart from the fear of God, we have no
other fear. Apart from the interest of
Nigeria, we have no other interest. And apart from the Rule of Law, we have no
other rule guiding the work we are doing today.
The days of impunity are over.
Victory is certain for the common man!
Aluta continua!
No comments:
Post a Comment