Fake independence: So, Tinubu can tell EFCC what to do! By Olu Fasan
In a statement, dated August 6, which he personally signed, the president said: “I must state that I feel deeply embarrassed not by the EFCC’s exercise of its mandate, backed by a court order, but by the timing of the agency’s action.
That’s how to interpret the president’s recent “directive” to the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to lift a freezing order it placed on the Osun State Government’s statutory allocation account over alleged diversion of public funds.
To be sure, in a presidential system, the executive power is vested in the president, as stated in section 5(1) of the 1999 Constitution, and, as such, an executive agency cannot be so independent as to be free of presidential control.
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