LAGOS NEW ANTI GRAFT AGENCY: ICPC, EFCC, Others Barred From Investigating Graft Cases in Lagos
A new law signed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State mandates agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, and other anti-graft agencies to hand over corruption cases to the state government.
According to the legislation titled ‘Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law’ signed by Sanwo-Olu last week. A new anti-corruption agency will have the exclusive rights to investigate financial crimes and corruption cases involving the finances of the Lagos State Government.
Section 13(3) of the law reads, “The commission shall upon the commencement of this law take over the investigation of all anti-corruption and financial crime cases involving the finances and assets of Lagos State Government being investigated by any other agency.”
Section 13(5) also states, “The commission shall have the power to the exclusion of any other agency or body to investigate and coordinate the investigation of corruption and financial crimes cases involving the finances and assets of the state government.”
Currently, three former Lagos governors, Bola Tinubu, Babatunde Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode, are said to be under investigation by the EFCC. The anti-graft agency is also investigating the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, who helped facilitate the passage of the law
SOURCE: THE PUNCH
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Not this time. Efcc and other national institutions has it as their right to do their work.
They want to run away from their charges. Who is this three governor that would decide for over ten million people’s how they will manage their money’s or investigate their money.
That bill is unacceptable and would not stand.
Who get money’s decide where they want to find their money,
They are savage to state, state is not their savage.
They want to run away from hunting them like past APC Imo state governor Rogers Okorocha.
No way