How ex-governors, ministers, others frustrate corruption trials – EFCC

Ex-governors, ministers and other high profile suspects being tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are devising various methods to elongate and frustrate their trial, SUNDAY PUNCH investigation has revealed.But, the anti-graft agency is also not taking any thing to chance to outsmart the suspects whose alleged financial crimes bordered on corrupt enrichment, mismanagement of public fund and oil bunkering.

Documents exclusively obtained by our correspondent on Saturday, identified the filing of ”frivolous applications” by defence lawyers to either stall or prolong their trial as among the ploys adopted by the suspects to frustrate their prosecution.

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How comes individuals have become more powerful than Nigeria as a nation? It is high time Government dealt with these jokers to erase the notion in some quarters that the anti-corruption war is a charade. The judiciary must call lawyers who use the freedom of democracy to feather their nests to order too.