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<\/p>\nFrank said that Magu was out to get his pound of flesh following his non-confirmation by the Senate through an illegal and unjust investigation aimed at tarnishing the image of Saraki.<\/p>\n
DAILY POST reported that Saraki had dismissed the anti-graft body\u2019s latest investigation of his tenure as Governor of Kwara State between 2003-2011 as a direct witch-hunt against his person, while the EFCC replied by saying that the probe was launched in public interest and the personal good of the President of the Senate.<\/p>\n
Tony Orilade, EFCC\u2019s spokesman, had in a statement said, \u201cIt is in the interest of the public, and for Saraki\u2019s personal good, that he is not only above board, but be seen at all times to be so.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Frank in a statement to DAILY POST in Abuja on Thursday, Pooh-Poohed the EFCC\u2019s claim that its never-ending investigative activities against Saraki was for both public and Saraki\u2019s personal good.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThe EFCC under its Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, has since derailed from the lofty objectives for which it was set up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is lamentable that what was established by law to sanitize and rid the country of economic and financial crimes has suffered a terrible hijack by puppeteers now using it to settle personal and political scores.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you launch an investigation into the legitimate earnings of a public servant who served his state meritoriously as governor from 2003 \u2013 2011 and still claim that the move is for public interest and the subject\u2019s personal interest?<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians are no fools. They know that Magu is out to get his pound of flesh following his non-confirmation by the Senate through an illegal and unjust investigation aimed at tarnishing the image of Saraki which he has repeatedly failed to achieve since 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me remind the EFCC that Nigerians are still waiting for them to investigate a bullion van that hurled humongous cash into the Ikoyi residence of a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, during the general elections. Or are the laws and regulations of the Commission only meant for certain individuals?<\/p>\n
\u201cBesides, when has the \u201cpersonal good\u201d of Saraki or any citizen for that matter, become the official business of the EFCC? Was the Commission set up to look after the welfare of individuals?<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is why I dare say without fear of contradiction that the EFCC under its present leadership has lost focus, is heavily compromised and has since abandoned the lofty objectives for which the agency was conceptualized.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no gainsaying the fact that Magu is using the Saraki investigation as a bait to secure a second term in office after almost completing an illegal one foisted on the country by the worst government ever in the history of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow will local and international partners respect a body that is not run according to law but the personal whims and caprices of its leader and a cabal that mean no good for the country?\u201d<\/p>\n
He reiterated his call on the EFCC to leave Saraki alone while urging the Commission to work in the overall interest of every Nigerian and not to use its powers to settle personal scores.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has described the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission\u2019s response to the President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, as \u201claughable.\u201c Frank said that Magu was out to get his pound of flesh following his non-confirmation by the Senate through an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[27,30,62],"class_list":["post-115437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-27","tag-arewa","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}