Dr Esa Onoja, a senior lecturer at the Nigerian Law School, Abuja, said on Wednesday that the nation’s two anti-graft agencies — EFCC and ICPC — have secured only 10 high profile convictions in 17 years.

Onoja said this in Lagos at the public presentation of a report entitled: “Letting the Big Fish Swim: How Those Accused of High-Level Corruption are Getting Away with their Crimes and Profiting from Nigeria’s Legacy of Impunity.’’

The report is published by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in partnership with Trust Africa.
Onoja, who teaches law, litigation and professional ethics, said: “The EFCC and ICPC between 2000 and 2017 secured an average of 100 convictions each year for low-level offenders.

“Within the same period, the EFCC and ICPC only got 10 high profile convictions for a total of 177 high profile prosecutions conducted.

“Of the 10 high profile convictions, three went to full trial, out of those three, two were advance fee fraud and the law right from the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Decree of 1995 up to the present law stipulates a mandatory minimum sentence.

“The two offenders that were convicted between seven and 10 years imprisonment one of them was Mrs Anajemba and the other one was Mr
Emmanuel Nwude.


https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/04/efcc-icpc-secure-only-10-high-profile-convictions-in-17-years-says-don/