The Chairman, Presidential
Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, has told
the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to
report the Department of State Service, DSS to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Sagay was reacting to the report
that the DSS on Tuesday stopped officials of the EFCC from arresting Ita
Ekpenyong, a former Director General of the agency.
According Sagay, Magu should
write a letter on the clash between the EFCC and the DSS to Buhari.
Officials of the DSS and EFCC
were involved in a showdown for over 13 hours on Tuesday when the EFCC
operatives stormed homes of Ekpenyong, and ex-DG of NIA, Ayo Oke, to arrest
them.
Sagay told Punch, “I think the
EFCC should refer the matter to the President so that he can take action
because the President is the overall boss and if people are misbehaving like
that, preventing agencies from doing their work, then there should be a penalty
for misconduct.
“We all know that the law
empowers the EFCC to investigate, arrest and prosecute and they have the right
to interrogate and invite you and if you refuse to come, they can arrest you.
“So, anybody, who refuses, that
is engaging in lawlessness and is trying to turn the country into a chaotic
state of lawlessness which is certainly not good for the country.
“No one is immune from arrest
except the President, Vice-President, governor and deputy governor.
“The DSS procedures do not supersede
the laws of the land. The EFCC Act does not require the agency writing to
anybody first.
“They cannot make a law that
supersedes that of the National Assembly. The excuses of the DSS are just a way
of covering up sheer lawlessness.”
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Those DSS guys must be arrested and detained. This is absolutely nonsense.
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