The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has vowed to investigate every former governor and any individual with corruption cases.
This was made known by the commission’s zonal commander, ACE Aliyu Yunusa who spoke at the opening of a one-day EFCC Civil Society Organisations engagement organised in Sokoto.
According to the zonal commander, every corrupt individual will face the the anti-graft agency’s investigation.
He disclosed that EFCC met with Civil Society Organisations from Kebbi, Zamfara and Sokoto states to collaborate in furtherance of the preventive mandate of the commission.
In addition, Yunusa stated that the EFCC will do everything within the law to sustain its tempo of rigorously pursuing economic and financial crime-related cases no matter who is involved.
Speaking in Sokoto on Thursday, Yunusa added that the commission is prepared to free Nigeria from the shackles of the ‘demon’ called corruption.
“Our core mandate remains and we are determined and resolute to achieve results with the active collaboration of Nigerians particularly the CSOs who are equally drivers of our mandate to success,” he said.
“We rely on the Nigeria public and organised bodies to nip in the bud, corruption and other economic crimes for a sound Nigeria.”
Yunusa also seized the opportunity to clear the perception of the majority of Nigerians that the EFCC does not investigate former governors.
“No past governor or anyone is exempted from our investigation where a petition is received,” he clarified.
In another development, an area court in Jos, Plateau State capital, on Friday, sentenced a 23-year-old student, David Longji, to three months imprisonment for stealing a solar panel.
The judge, Mr Shawomi Bokkos, sentenced Longji after he pleaded guilty to theft.
Bokkos, however, gave him the option to pay N20,000 as a fine.
Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp Ibrahim Gokwat, told the court that the case was reported on October 16 at the Anglo-Jos Police Station by one Livinus James, the complainant.
The prosecutor said the convict stole the solar panel from a company and was caught while trying to sell it.
Gokwat said the offence contravened the provisions of the Plateau Penal Code.