Author: Stanley Ebube

THE recent public posturing and proxy attacks directed at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by Nigeria’s former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, are profoundly troubling and entirely unbecoming of a man who once occupied the highest legal office in the land. Malami is not an ordinary citizen unfamiliar with the workings of law enforcement or the demands of due process. As Attorney-General of the Federation, he was the chief law officer of Nigeria, custodian of the rule of law, and supervisor directly or indirectly of the very institutions he now seeks to delegitimise because he…