Reactions trailed the resolve by the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede to follow the prosecution of former Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello to logical conclusion.
The former governor is alleged to have laundered the sum of N80.2 billion belonging to Kogi.
EFCC chairman had, on Tuesday, while briefing newsmen at the Commission’s Headquarters in the Jabi area of Abuja, vowed to resign as EFCC chairman if Bello is not prosecuted.
The EFCC is seeking to arraign Bello on a 19-count charge, bordering on alleged money laundering, breach of trust, and misappropriation of funds to the tune of N80.2 billion before a Federal High Court in Abuja.
The EFCC boss said, no matter what anyone does or the amount of attack against the anti-graft agency, he and his men will not relent in helping to sanitise the country.
Already, the EFCC has declared Yahaya Bello wanted after a futile attempt to effect his arrest.
Reacting to the action of the EFCC, an Abuja-based lawyer, Obioma Ezenwobodo said, the anti-graft agency should know that its main task is to prosecute and secure conviction.
Ezenwobodo, who is the chairman of the Garki Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) said, the EFCC should speak little in public and speak more in court with hardcore evidence.
According to him, “Anything otherwise will be viewed as media trial which is frowned upon in any decent society.
“The case of former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN) is a classic example of so much noise without conviction”.
Meanwhile, an Abuja-based constitutional lawyer, Godwin Sunday Ogboji, in his reaction called on the EFCC chairman to make good his threat and ensure that the former Kogi state governor is properly prosecuted according to the law.
He said the anti-graft agency should carry out proper investigation on Yahaya Bello to enable diligent prosecution in the offences which he is being accused.
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