EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu and his officials say they have evidence against Odili a powerful figure in former President Olusegun Obasanjo's government...
Vol 48 No 23 |
- NIGERIA
- ANALYSIS
Firstly there are the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under Chairman Nuhu Ribadu to prosecute several former PDP governors for grand corruption...
EFCC officials claim that Ibori has alternately tried to secure the sacking of their Executive Chairman Nuhu Ribadu and when that didn’t work (Ribadu has tenure for another four years) they say Ibori unsuccessfully tried to bribe him...
Now Nigeria's own anti-corruption investigators under Nuhu Ribadu have started probing illegal payments in the oil and gas sector which was previously forbidden territory...
It will also block the promotion of Nuhu Ribadu who was tipped for the IG's job...
He was a driving force among the team of reformers during President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term: Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Education Minister Obi Ezekwesili anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu and Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise Irene Chigbue...
The incumbent Federal Capital Minister Nasir el-Rufai and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu will get key posts...
However some months ago the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu assured journalists that he would be presenting Odili with a dossier outlining his misuse of state funds over the past eight years...
Within its ranks the PDP has even tolerated a group of reformers led by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nasir el-Rufai and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu who speak of a permanent revolution and of changing the face of Nigeria...
EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu insists that the investigation must proceed given that the sacked Bayelsa Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is being held on corruption charges which have forced Odili's ally Rotimi Amaechi off the State ticket...