Falana misrepresented me on EFCC prosecutorial powers- Agbakoba

Olisa Agbakoba, a former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), says Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), misrepresented him in a story credited to him (Falana), which appeared in a national newspaper (not BusinessDay) on Tuesday, September 20, 2016, titled, “The fight against anti-corruption agencies by NBA (1).”
Agbakoba said the story was wrong, which created a wrong impression that he (Agbakoba) had in time past made some moves aimed at divesting the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of its prosecutorial powers.
According to Agbakoba, “The story credited to my learned brother Femi Falana stating that in 2007 I led a delegation of bar leaders to pay a courtesy call on the then Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa (SAN) with a view to divesting the EFCC of its prosecutorial powers. Nothing can be farther from the truth. I never led any such delegation at any time to the then Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Michael Aondoakaa.”
Agbakoba, however, insists that he would “continue to hold the view that a debate on the propriety of the EFCC investigating and prosecuting financial crimes at the same time is appropriate. If the idea behind my learned brother’s insinuation is to stifle debate on the EFCC, this will not work.”