By Busari Kabirat
The popular Nigerian human rights activist and Lawyer, Femi Falana, has advised that the National Assembly should cease the opportunity of the ongoing constitutional review to put a stop to the diversionary debate about the validity of the Independent Corrupt Practice and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), in the Acts.
SAN made this request in two different letters, which one of the letters was addressed to the leadership of the National Assembly, and the second addressed to the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, noting that this can be done by entrenching the both anti-graft agencies in the Constitution.
He said, “If both commissions are constitutionalised, they will be protected and strengthened to fight the menace of corruption and money laundering.”
Falana reacting to the Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association’s comment, who agreed that the EFCC was established under the power which is beyond that of the National Assembly.
Falana disagreed with Agbakoba’s contention that the Supreme Court had knocked the EFCC severally based on passed cases but on the contrary, the Supreme Court had always supported the efforts of the ICPC and the EFCC in fighting monumental corruption in the country.
