Finally, a government official high up enough, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has voiced out, the widely held view that most lawyers, especially some who claim to belong to the inner bar, deliberately abuse the judicial process for pecuniary gains.
Weighty as this allegation is, it is not far from the truth and ought to tug at the conscience of the lawyers in particular and the profession as a whole. Since the inception of the agency, many political figures have been arraigned for looting public treasuries while in office but few have been convicted except in one prominent case where the ex-governor was fined a mere N3 million for the crime he committed which he promptly paid, in cash, from the boot of his car. And his lawyers, all of the inner bar, were beating their broad chests in self-adulation even as they eulogised what they perceived as the beauty of the rule of law that, in all ramifications, did not serve the common good. And EFCC could do nothing about it. These politicians, as if to dare the rest of us, recycle themselves back into office as governors, senators and even ministers.
 

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