Vice President Yemi Osinbajo made
the declaration in a chat with journalists in Lagos, just days after he stated
that ‘Magu is going nowhere’.
”EFCC has the absolute right to
do whatever it needs to do to ensure that anybody who has committed a crime
orsuspected to having committed a crime, is brought to justice”, he stated.
He also spoke on the recent
face-off involving the EFCC, Department of State Service (DSS) and National
Intelligence Agency (NIA).
His words: “One of the things
that the President decided to do is to ensure that every agency does its work
without direct interference from the President. So the President does not call
the EFCC, and say, “Go and arrest Mr Ekpeyong”, no.
“And that’s one of the most
important things about the style of this government, and we want the agencies
to do their work. No one has showed up and called Magu and say, ‘Look go and
arrest.’ That’s what it is.
”While you will find, for
example, that the DG, SSS, upon the request by the Senate, wrote a security
report and sent it, yet it is up to the President to decide whether he’s going
to present this candidate.
”Interfering with the process
of a security report is not leadership, that’s obstructing. He is not supposed
to interfere. If you say, ‘Send your report’, whatever report you want to send,
the man defends himself, and we still believe he is the right person for the
job. That is the position that we took when he was presented the second time.
”Of course, the Senate has had
their own say on that and they are entitled to take some of the positions they
are taking. But the President believes that this is the right man for the job,
so he presented him the second time.
”With respect to the arrest of
DG, NIA, and some of what took place, I think the fair thing to say is that the
President has said that the EFCC has the absolute right to go ahead and do
whatever it needs to do to ensure that anybody who has committed a crime, or
who is suspected to having committed a crime, is brought to justice, and that’s
the position that the EFCC has taken.
”You know the EFCC has issued a
notice for the DG, NIA, and SGF to attend interview with the EFCC; but we are
sure that that process would be followed to a logical conclusion.
”To ensure that you allow
government agency do their business, that’s very important; that’s institution
building. Look at what is happening in the US today; the President is sometimes
angry with the FBI because the FBI is doing its independent work, and that’s
what we hope to achieve: when you see countries where agencies are doing their
work the way they are supposed to do it.”
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