The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has been drawn to media reports on the decision of Justice Abdul
Kafarati of the Federal High Court, Abuja to decline ruling in the fundamental
human rights enforcement case brought before him by Senate President, Bukola
Saraki.
The judge blamed his decision to disqualify himself from the
case on a Tuesday March 21, 2016 report in an online news medium, alleging that
he had been bribed to rule in Saraki’s favour. 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 organization 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.
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