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By Moji Eniola/Florence Onuegbu Lagos, May 19, 2021 The Lagos State Government says it has presented a total of 16 bills to the State House of Assembly in the last two years. The Commissioner for Justice, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo, made this known on Wednesday in Ikeja during the 2021 Ministerial Press Briefing in
Cross River, Nasarawa, Bauchi plan anti-corruption agencies after Lagos
Published 1 May 2021
Some state governments, including Cross River, Bauchi, and Nasarawa are also planning to establish their own anti-corruption agencies, taking a cue from Lagos State which about two weeks ago signed a new law mandating anti-graft agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to hand over corruption cases to the state government.
However, Ekiti, Kogi, Enugu and Imo states rejected the idea of creating parallel anti-graft agencies, while Rivers, Gombe, Adamawa, and Delta states said they had yet to decide whether to create their own anti-graft agencies.
According to the legislation titled, ‘Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law,’ signed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu about two weeks ago, a new anti-corruption agency will have the exclusive rights to investigate financial crimes and corruption cases involving the finances of the Lagos State Governme
How New Lagos Anti-Graft Law Seeks To Protect Corrupt Ex-Governors, Political Class HEDA
A statement by HEDA’s Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, said the law which was recently signed by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, looks like a progress in the fight against corruption but is actually an attempt to cripple the anti-corruption campaign.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 30, 2021
Anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has called on the Lagos State House of Assembly to immediately review and amend the ‘Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law 2021’.
A statement by HEDA’s Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, said the law which was recently signed by Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, looks like a progress in the fight against corruption but is actually an attempt to cripple the anti-corruption campaign.
A new law passed by the Lagos state house of assembly and signed by Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor, will establish an anti-corruption agency that has the “exclusive” rights to probe cases of corruption that have to do with the state, The PUNCH is reporting.
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The agency when set up will take over cases relating to Lagos from agencies like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
The law entitled ‘Lagos State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission Law’ was signed by Sanwo-Olu last week, according to the newspaper.
Investigations by the EFCC into the stewardship of Babatunde Fashola and Akinwunmi Ambode, both former governors of Lagos, are said to be in progress.