YOU DO NOT ENJOY IMMUNITY,WE WOULD ARREST YOU IF YOU ARE FOUND WANTING-EFCC TO SENATOR EKWEREMADU

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said that no amount of scare-mongering will dissuade it from “vigorously enforcing its mandate to rid Nigeria of corruption”, if the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, is found guilty in its latest findings.

The Commission, was responding to an alarm by Ike Ekweremadu, that it plans to set him up, by planting cash and weapons at his houses, to be unearthed during a planned raid.

Ekweremadu, had raised the alarm when he read a letter at plenary on Wednesday, reportedly written to him by an unnamed Nigerian.

He said the move is to force him out of office, and give the impression that he is a corrupt Politician, unfit to hold any public office.

However, the Agency in a statement on Wednesday night, said: “The Commission’s candid advice to Ekweremadu is to sleep easy, if he is not involved in the looting spree that seems to be the pastime of many Nigerians in the corridors of power. Let it be known however, that there will be no amount of scare-mongering that will dissuade the EFCC from vigorously enforcing its mandate to rid Nigeria of corruption.”

The statement read in part: “The Commission wishes to state in very strong terms, that it is not aware of any plot to set up Ekweremadu for any arrest. If any agency is plotting to plant monies and guns in Ekweremadu’s residence, it is certainly not the EFCC, as such antics are alien to the Commission.

“Nevertheless, the Commission is worried by the alarm and the fact that the highly-regarded Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, would go public with such unverified information, without first double-checking with the Commission.

“This is not only very strange, but smacks of a scripted propaganda campaign to distract the Commission, by putting it on the defensive.

“It must be emphatically stated for the benefit of Senator Ekweremadu and others who share similar misconception and jaundiced views of the EFCC, that the Commission does not need any grand plot to arrest and prosecute him, if he is found to have violated any law that EFCC enforces. He does not belong in the category of public officers that enjoy immunity from arrest and prosecution by law enforcement agencies.