Is it even correct for EFCC to go after lawyers who allegedly helped looters escape justice

• We’ll start going after lawyers who help ‘looters’ escape justice’- EFCC acting chairman says

 

“The acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, says that the antigraft agency will soon start going after lawyers who aid and abet financial and economic crimes. Magu said this at the opening of a one-day workshop organised by the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) in collaboration with the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACC) at the Rockview hotel in Abuja yesterday Tuesday July 12th.

A statement issued by EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren states that Magu said at the workshop that the EFCC could not stamp out corruption in the country without the support of all stakeholders.
“We consider everybody a stakeholder, as the EFCC does not have monopoly of knowledge to defeat all shades of graft. We will not stop going after people who are involved in laundering money. It doesn’t matter who you are, the law is a respecter of nobody especially those who commit crime. Whether you are EFCC, SAN or whatever, sooner or later we will start going after people who buy properties with stolen funds as well as people who help others to escape justice”he said”

 

My opinion – I mean I’m a little bit confused here, I thought legal practitioners were hired to do their jobs and get paid for it so when I see articles like this I can’t help but just wonder, lawyers are meant to do their jobs regardless of whatever case they may be handling so I don’t think it is correct for EFCC to utter this but well, this is jus my own oppinion we don’t really know what happens these days we just have to report all we see. Let’s eee how everything would unfold later.

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