REFLECTIONS ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INVESTIGATIVE AND PROSECUTORIAL POWERS OF ANTI-GRAFT AGENCIES
At the 2016 Annual General Conference of the NBA, the newly elected NBA President Abubakar Mahmood, in his personal capacity, ad vocated that the EFCC should be stripped of its prosecutorial powers . The EFCC leadership has angrily reacted to that proposal and resorted to a generalized attack against lawyers, calling them “rogues and vultures”. Leaving aside the undesirable intolerance and personal attacks against the NBA president and lawyers by the EFCC leadership , the real issue thrown up by the NBA President is: what should be the desired architecture of the relationship between