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Waziri charges law enforcement officers on corruption

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs Farida Waziri has called on law enforcement agents to eschew corruption in the discharge of their duties, stressing that that is one sure way of contributing to the development of Nigeria.

She made the call when she presented a paper, entitled, “The Rule of Law and the Challenges of Law Enforcement” at the Police Service Commission retreat held this week at Miccom Golf Hotel and Resort in Ada, Osun State.

The EFCC chairman who said that it is only when corruption is eschewed that Nigeria can achieve meaningful development, noted that corruption has practically crippled the nation. According to her, the Nigeria police and other law enforcement agencies are vital in the fight against corruption. “The police as law enforcement agents are therefore the direct agents of economic development since there is incontrovertible basis for the assertion that an economically developed economy and society could lead to lesser levels of crime. So it is in the interest of the police to ensure that they not only directly work within the parameters of the law but also encourage the achievement of the rule of law,” she stated.

The EFCC boss also took a swipe at law enforcement officers who compromise professionalism and extort money from complainants or suspects. This practice she said was not only condemnable but “is arbitrary and antithetical to the tenets of the rule of law.”

She charged the police and other law enforcement agents to discharge their duties within the ambit of the law saying that “the police, in protecting and operating within the law will be seen institutionally as good corporate citizens. The police are builders of a nation but must never go the way of the Napoleonic expression that “he who builds a nation breaks no law.” She said that the rule of law espouses the supremacy of the law and therefore cautioned law enforcement officers against the abuse of the law, extra judicial killings and other crimes.

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