LAGOS – Stakeholders are divided over the recent remand orders handed down on the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa; the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba, and the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Farouk Yahaya, by different judges for alleged contempt of court.
Dr. Tunde Moses Elebute, a human rights promoter and the Deputy Director, Crime Victims Foundation of Nigeria (CRIVIFON), Lagos State chapter, and Barrister Alaowei, E. Cleric, Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), Centre for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (CHURAC), who spoke to Sunday INDEPENDENT separately on the issue, expressed divergent views on it. Dr. Elebute, also a public affairs commentator, called on the judiciary to exercise caution, warning that the third arm of government should not prepare grounds for the military to interfere in the governance of the country through the force of the barrel of the gun.
