LAGOS—Legal Defence and Assistance Project, LEDAP, Sunday, called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to ensure it was ready with sufficient evidence to prosecute the charges against some former governors it arrested last week and also demand from the court day to day trial until the trials were concluded.

EFCC is to arraign some of the former governors in court Monday.

National coordinator of LEDAP, Mr Chino Obiagwu, in a statement, said: “All the former governors arraigned by EFCC in the past are walking free men, and trials have not commenced after over four years. This shows that EFCC was not ready to prosecute the cases before they arrested and arraigned the former governors.

“EFCC must stop the media-focused, commando-style arrests of public office holders, which tends to depict its motive to only make news in the media with little or no preparation for prosecution.

”Economic crimes require concrete evidence to prosecute and if EFCC is not ready with its cases, Nigeria’s senior lawyers will exploit the gaps to frustrate the cases.”

“We are concerned that no significant convictions against any former governor have been secure by EFCC or ICPC despite huge and widespread misuse of local government allocations and security votes by state governors since 1999,” the group added.