EFCC Can Leave Me Alone, Saraki Reacts To Court Rulig

Immediate past president of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC can now leave him alone after failing in the court to forcefully confiscate his two houses in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Saraki said the EFCC pursuit of him was a personal vendetta by its suspended chairman, Ibrahim Magu following the decision of the Eight Senate to confirm his appointment.

The assertion followed the decision of Justice Rilwan Aikawa of a Federal High Court in Lagos to reject the application by the EFCC to confiscate the two houses on the claim that they were acquired with the proceeds of corruption.

The EFCC’s application was, however, rejected by the judge who said that there was sufficient basis for the forfeiture of the two houses.

Reacting, Saraki said:
“I know that the Senate under my leadership only followed the due and normal procedure during the confirmation process and we never executed any personal agenda against Magu. The records of the Senate are there for the perusal of all Nigerians interested in the truth.

“I hope that with the outcome of today’s case, EFCC learns that a serious issue like the fight against corruption should not be reduced to a forum-shopping means to execute a personal vendetta or prosecute a parochial agenda.

“With the decision of the court, it is my expectation that the EFCC, which has played significant roles in the various court cases against me from the CCT (Code of Conduct Tribunal) to the Supreme Court and back at the Federal High Court with the consequent media trial and malicious campaigns will now leave me alone to live my life, and enjoy my unfettered rights to freedom of thought, expression, association, occupation and dignity, as a private citizen and focus on serious issues of national development.”

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