Senate committee, not Saraki insisted that raid on judges was illegal- Utazi

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Mr.Chukwuka Utazi said Friday that the comment he made on Thursday condemning last year’s raid on some judges by operatives of the Department of State Security Services(DSS) was that of his committee.

Utazi had been reported as expressing the opinion of Senate President Bukola Saraki whom he represented at the opening of the National Dialogue on corruption organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption (PACAC).

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He was quoted as saying, “In the same vain, PACAC should not be seen as lending itself to supporting extra-legal actions if the fight against corruption must be sustained and ingrained in the body polity.

” A situation where PACAC speaks in favour of patently extra-legal means of law enforcement does not bode well for the rule of law.”

However, Utazi in a clarification yesterday said, “ though I represented the Senate President at the dialogue, I am owning and adopting the speech I delivered as that of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes which I chair.”

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