Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), says he once rejected a bribe of £1m from a governor he did not name. The EFCC Alert, a monthly magazine, quoted Falana as saying this at an anti-corruption workshop in Abuja recently.
Falana said the
governor told him to help him launder the money to another country but he
rejected the offer.
He said, “The governor
asked me to assist him in transferring money abroad and I should claim it to be
the proceeds of sale of his property. The price was extremely attractive. He
was going to pay me a million pounds when money was money then.”
Falana said he was
stunned when the governor told him that he had chosen him for the shady deal
saying “nobody will suspect you.”
“I told him, Your
Excellency, so it is my reputation that you want to buy with your £1m.”
The senior advocate
said some of his colleagues accepted to launder the funds for the governor but
were caught and exposed.
“Those who accepted the
offer later found themselves in trouble as they were arrested and humiliated.
They were only lucky not to have been charged,” Falana added.
Falana said it was unfortunate that lawyers had become tools
of money laundering.
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