The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, yesterday passed a damning verdict on members of the inner bar as he accused prominent lawyers of frustrating the ongoing war against corruption.
According to him, these prominent members of the bar collect corruption-tainted briefs, then aid and abet those who commit crimes by furnishing them with technical knowledge of how to escape the long arms of the law, as well as how to hide the loot they had stolen. Speaking when the national executive of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) paid him courtesy call in his office at the Commission’s headquarters, Abuja, Magu asked the NBA to face reality by admitting the fact that some persons in its fold were not fit to be called lawyers. “We must tell ourselves the truth: there are lawyers within the fold of the NBA who ought not to be among your noble ranks. Those people are not fit to be called ministers; rather, they are vandals of the temple of justice”, he said, adding that while the burden of expectation is not only on the shoulders of those at the EFCC, Nigerians are expecting much from legal practitioners.
 

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