You won’t believe what EFCC tells all treasury looters to start doing

– The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is advising all past and current treasury looters

– The anti-graft agency said all corrupt individuals will have to “vomit’’ all they stole in order for justice to reign

The EFCC’s  director of public affairs, Osita Nwaja, said this statement, while advising all treasury looters, when he granted an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday, June 29 in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria.

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Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

Nwaja reaffirmed the anti-graft agency’s total commitment to bring corrupt office holders to face the full weight of the law.

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The EFCC stated: “Vomit what you stole. We gave you this thing to keep and you ate it and then you are claiming right. You are throwing impunity at our faces and that is not right. And that is what EFCC is saying. It is not right.

“We must bring them to justice. The accused persons themselves they have stolen billions. And then they will go and hire all the lawyers they can and this is where we have the problems with some of these lawyers.

“Recently we took some of them to court and then they appeared in support of themselves. “Over 100 Senior Advocates of Nigeria to defend one man (while referring to one of the political office holders). We are talking about 103 chambers in defence of one man.”

“That is immoral to say the very least.”

While explaining that the war against corruption and corrupt-related issues is the responsibility of all Nigerians, Nwaja said: “We hear about all the crimes and all the criminals that are being investigated and prosecuted by the EFCC.

“Many of these people have direct link to the common man. “The common man does not see always because they try to blur the line of that linkage how that man who is stealing billions and trillions relates to his very callous regrettable situation in life.

“How the money meant for road, money for hospitals to take care of pregnant women, to send children to school are disappearing into people’s accounts, and people’s pockets and people’s stomach.

“Just a few people and their families and their friends and their associates and they are holding the Nigerian people to ransom.”

A lot of civil society groups are becoming more interested in the fight against corruption in the country, as the federal government was urged by a group, the Centre for the Vulnerable and the Underprivileged (CENTREP) to publish the names of treasury looters alongside the amount recovered from them.

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