BRIBERY ALLEGATION: INEC WILL COOPERATE WITH EFCC – INEC CHAIRMAN

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has assured that the Commission will cooperate with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in sanitizing the system following the recent bribery allegation against some staff of the Commission.
The Chairman gave the assurance last week during a meeting with Editors of Print and Electronic Media, at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos.

He said: “whatever level of cooperation any of the agencies requires of the Commission, we will give that level of cooperation because it is also in a bid to sanitize the system”.
Professor Yakubu, called on the EFCC to fish out both the givers and the receivers. He said: “I hope also it will extend to the givers not just the takers so that there will be collective sanity. Whoever violates the law of this land and there are questions to answer, the person should answer, the person should bear his own cross”.

He further said: “all the staff that are fingered are individuals. It is not a collective institutional thing. They should go and answer for what they have alleged to have done.”