FG to EFCC’s invitees: Toe path of decency

The Attorney General of the Federation and the Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has bemoaned the obstruction of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from performing its constitutional duties.

According to him, the EFCC has the power to invite anyone in the course of its investigation.

His statement is coming after the EFCC’s effort to arrest the former governor of Kogi State, Yayaha Bello, proved abortive on Wednesday despite obtaining a court order.

After several hours of laying siege to his house in Abuja, his successor, Usman Ododo, was said to have whisked him away.

Fagbemi, however, did not mention the former governor’s name in the statement he personally signed on Thursday.

He, however, urged public officials to desist from obstructing the EFCC from carrying out its statutory duties.

The statement read, “The bizarre drama confronting the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the course of its efforts to perform its statutory duty has come to my notice (Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice) as a matter of very grave concern. Punch