Reacting to the statement, Sagay said the federal lawmakers had constituted an opposition to
the anti-corruption efforts of the government and anti-graft agencies.
Before then, this same member and another articulate colleague at a forum on corruption organized in Abuja by the Pyrates Confraternity, separately pronounced doubts about the commitment of the AGF to
the anti-corruption efforts of the government on account of serial embarrassing defeats handed the government in key cases prosecuted by his office.
Not exact matches
The charges focus specifically on Mr. Silver's use
of the U.S. mail system and wire exchanges, which give the federal
government and Mr. Bharara jurisdiction for the charges, to allegedly send fraudulent documents in his
effort to perpetrate the scheme and to conceal it from the legislature's Ethics Commission and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's short - lived
anti-corruption Moreland Commission.
The absence
of enhanced protection and security for the EFCC and other
anti-corruption agencies could ruin the
government's
anti-corruption efforts and weaken citizens» trust and confidence in its ability to effectively and successfully prosecute grand corruption cases.»
The former presidential candidate also lauded the
anti-corruption efforts of the federal
government.