donne4real | December 28, 2007
Honestly, I think this is a shame. Why else would the authorities ask him to go on a year-long study leave if it isnt because they are protecting some people and are afraid that he is stepping on toes to get the job done. Can the government still claim that they want to fight corruption when the head of the anti-corruption agency is being sidelined?
Read more on BBC.
Tags: Corruption, EFCC, ribadu
donne4real | December 13, 2007
James Ibori, the former governor of Delta State was arrested yesterday and will be arraigned on 103 counts of corruption.
Tags: Corruption, EFCC, nigeria
donne4real | September 20, 2007
There has been this back and forth accusations and counter-accusations between the EFCC and the Attorney General for a while now.
EFCC were set to charge former Abia State Governor, Kalu for corruption. The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) tried to takeover the case from the EFCC and the EFCC pointedly refused to hand over the case to the MOJ. The Minister of Justice then demanded an apology from EFCC Chairman, Mr Ribadu, who refused to tender any apology for embarassing the Attorney Genera.
Earlier this week, Gani Fawenhimi demanded that the AG resign. Very few people have come out to back the Attorney General. To make matters worse, The Senate has stated that they fully back the EFCC in this matter.
So the story continues…
Tags: EFCC, Government, Justice, Kalu
donne4real | July 25, 2007
After some lull, EFCC is now back - It has secured an order to seize the Kalu’s properties and they are now ready to resume case against new Abia State governor, Theodore Orji. Nnamani flown to Lagos for trial.And in another interesting article in NY Times, Nigerians were the most optimistic of all African countries surveyed. 69% of the Nigerians surveyed expect that their children would be better off than today.
