Despite the job that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has embarked upon in the last 4 months in busting graft and financial crimes by the high and mighty in Nigeria, former president Olusegun Obasanjo seems not to be impressed.
The former Nigerian President at his birthday celebration,lambasted the commission as a toothless bulldog.
Obasanjo still nostalgic of his eight years as president, from 1999-2007, wondered what happened to the anti-graft agency that it has become ‘toothless’ in his view.
He said during EFCC regime of Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer chairman of the commission, Nigerians’ slogan then was, ‘the fair of Nuhu Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom’.
“Honestly, when Nuhu was handling EFCC, he handled it in such a way that people coined the saying that ‘the beginning of wisdom is the fear of Nuhu Ribadu’ and then the thing you will ask is how did we go down? How did we lose that?
“Nuhu Ribadu is still here, he is still alive, the institution we started together is still there, but what made the institution to become a toothless bulldog? What? And that’s the matter we have to keep looking at, so that we don’t take two steps forward, one step aside and three steps back”, he said.He however advised the Buhari government and all stakeholders to look into the fate of the agency, so that its activities will not amount to taking a step forward and further steps backward.
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