ACC's probe welcome

The ACC's launching of a probe into the declared  wealth  and assets  of one minister and two state ministers from former cabinet and four lawmakers from both the present and immediate past parliaments is a much awaited step in the right direction. The gaps between the wealth statements they submitted to the EC before the 9th and 10th JS polls respectively are too wide to be explained rationally. The ACC's task is now to effectively conduct the investigation to hold them to account and, at the same time, let the general public know how these politicians could amass such enormous wealth within such a short span of time.
While commending this particular ACC move, we would also like the anti-graft body to look into the wealth status of a host of others regardless of their political identities. Their wealth apparently does not match their known sources of income.
Widening the scope of investigation is essential to ensuring that public representatives are individuals of integrity and probity. The ACC in collaboration with the EC and the National Board of Revenue (NBR) should do it  homing in on such people whose declared incomes hardly tally with the amounts of wealth they own.
Powerful as the big possessors of ill-gotten money often are, they don't easily give in to the law. The government, if necessary, together with the parliament should create provisions to strengthen the hands of law so that these powerful but corrupt quarters could be exposed and held to account.