Breaking News : EFCC not done with Fayose

Sir: It is an inescapable fact that the anti-corruption agencies since the coming of the Muhammadu Buhari administration has woken them up from their slumber of those years when stealing was not corruption. We are all witnesses to change that is being experienced in our public life, now that stealing is corruption as enshrined in our constitution.

It is also a fact that according to our constitution, certain categories of public officials are immune from prosecution while in office and they include the President, Vice President, governors and deputy governors. Thus, we all recognise and accept the fact that this category of persons has immunity, but to transfer this immunity to their property or holdings or bank accounts is what one has been unable to locate in the constitution.So, if some Nigerians are toeing the line of Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State in crying wolf over the freezing of his personal bank account and not the Ekiti State government bank account as a result of investigation of irregularities and suspicious transactions by the EFCC as empowered by the Act establishing the commission, may one use this medium to advise the governor to quickly approach the courts and seek the interpretation of the law. Governor Fayose, over to you to do the needful, because cheap blackmail won’t help your cause.

Nelson Ekujumi,
Lagos.