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I WILL NOT BE PARTY TO ILLEGALITY---FARIDA WAZIRI

By emeka okoh          newsdiaryonline.com      Friday  May 29, 2009


The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Farida
Waziri,says  efforts are being intensified to repatriate the former minister
of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT) Mallam Nasir El-Rufai  to the country.

Farida who spoke with airport reporters onThursday at the General Aviation Terminal
(GAT) said the commission was on course in the process, adding that the case
would be coming up next week.

On the statement credited to the former chairman of the commission Nuhu
Ribadu that the EFFC was dead,Farida said she understood the former
chairman’s way of fighting corruption in the country which may led him
claimed that the commission was dead.
In what appeared like a direct reply to Ribadu Waziri said
that she will not sit down in her office to compile list of
faceless Nigerians and declare them unqualified for an election in the
country and disfranchise them .She added that only a court of 
law has the power to do.

“I am not going to sit down in my office and compile a list of Nigerians and
say they are unqualified to stand for election and disfranchise them. It is
only a court of law that can pronounce them guilty or innocent, I am not
going to kidnap any member of the national assembly and force them to
impeach governors. I am not going to arrest people and force detectives to
go and look for evidence in which to try them”

Farida said she was not going to be a party to the illegality of plea
bargaining and will never sell assets without record .She wondered if that
was what  fight corruption meant.

The EFCC Chairman called for swift  action on the need to establish a
special court to try suspects in order fast track trials as is it done in
United States, Austria among others that have special court adding that the
normal court  process was slow in dispensing justice .

 

 


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