The war of words between the major players of the
Economic and financial crime commission reached a crescendo yesterday, as
former czar of the anti corruption agency, Nuhu Ribadu threw his hat into the
ring, with his boxing gloves to battle her successor, Mrs. Farida Waziri.
Ribadu expressed his displeasure on some comments
made by Waziri in her interview faulted the claim
that he worked under her. He stated that the reverse was the case, as he was
the one who taught Waziri; “This is a naked lie that she keeps flaunting to
seek undue relevance and validate her appointment. At no time in my career did
I work under the same section or unit as her. In fact, contrary to Waziri’s
claim that she “trained” me, it was I who actually lectured her and others on fraud
investigation and prosecution, when she was newly posted as head of special
fraud unit, even though he was my senior in rank. I was then head of
prosecution tribunals under the leadership of Mr. Sunday Ehindero, then CP
Legal” he said.
He denied Waziri’s claim of Obasanjo using him to
prosecute his third term agenda. On it, he said; “It was also uncharitable of
her to have insinuated that EFCC was used to push for third term agenda. She
was nowhere close to know what we did. We actually halted our works on the
politically exposed persons throughout the period of the third term debacle to
insulate the commission”, he said in the statement.
He frowned at Waziri’s statement which undermined
the men and women who staked their lives in the course of their duties,
considering the fact that she made the EFCC a laughing stock under her
leadership.
“EFCC was not about Ribadu. Rubbishing its work
therefore is like insulting all the thousands of its operatives across the
country who put their lives on the line to make Nigeria
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