Author: Chetam Nwobodo

IT is now all clear that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is standing both legalism and logic on the head in the case of former Kogi governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. With the frenzy and desperation it exhibited these past days, the EFCC is justifying the pervasive notion that it’s being used as an instrument of political vendetta rather than as an anti-graft institution set up by law and obligated to be law-abiding in the discharge of its duties. Statutorily, EFCC has the right and privilege to investigate, arrest and prosecute persons allegedly involved in financial crimes. But the…