Prof. Wole Soyinka has charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to have a VIP section for highly placed individuals under investigation for corruption.
Soyinka made this charge on Monday in Abuja while speaking at the opening ceremony of the eighth Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa.
He said he was of the view that the EFCC should be a VIP wing where politically exposed persons under interrogation would be kept, saying the anti-graft agency boss, however, dismissed his suggestion.
“I spoke to Magu and I said I want to see where the presidential wing is. I said as a human rights person, I want to make sure you treat them right when they come here and he said ‘sorry it is an egalitarian institution and I said I would take that message back to them that they should get ready to go down a little bit in status when the time comes and justice catches up with them,” the Nobel Laureate narrated.
Soyinka said corruption would become a thing of the past only when corrupt leaders, either past or present, were brought to justice.
According to him, “I am not a vengeful person but I think until we ensure that some of our leaders pass through those doors, this struggle against corruption in this country will not be won, will not be over.”
