Mr. Nuhu Ribadu This is Me

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1. 1. www.africansinamericanewswatch.com

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   Published on: 2/8/2008   Last Visited: 5/2/2008

   Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
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   Though the Chairman of the anti-corruption agency, Mr. Ribadu is a Commissioner in the huge Nigeria Police Force and still under the command of the top cop, Inspector-General Okiro. As currently a commissioner, Mr. Ribadu is 3 ranks below the top cop.
   
   Since taking over the agency and launching the crusade against corruption and looting of the public funds, Mr. Ribadu had made many politicians and other looters of government treasury very uncomfortable. Boisterous calls for his ouster by politicians and public office holders his agency is investigating and had investigated for corruption is not new in Nigeria.
   
   Ironically, other security and para-security agencies had also felt uncomfortable with the rising profile of the young Nigerian anti-corruption czar. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under the leadership of Mr. Ribadu had successfully prosecuted many high-profile cases of corruption involving public office holders, a feat not replicated in other agencies. The agency, it was reported, could have done much better and probably reached its goal of riding Nigeria of corruption had it not been for excessive interference by leaders in its investigations.
   
   Many Nigerians believe that the 1-year course may be a ploy by mega-powerful individuals with a lot of ,skeletons' on their cap-boards and therefore uncomfortable with his work to ease him out of office.
   
   Some Nigerians eager to humiliate the anti-corruption chief are already loudly referring the 1-year course, as "sack and removal", thereby fuelling the suspicion that the Nigeria Police Force which is Mr. Ribadu's immediate constituency uncomfortable with his rising profile and popularity may have been used to perfect that plot, if actual the plot is real.
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   However, sensing the danger and huge damage humiliating Mr. Ribadu could cause to Yar'Adua's fragile government, anti-Nigeria forces (the mega-powerful individuals whose business is looting of public treasury) may have designed this 1-year course as perfect ,ploy' to ease him out of office without raising public suspicion. According to sources, Ribadu's journey out of office, according to those behind the plot, would start with a year course in the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, in Jos, Plateau State in very near future.
   
   While away in Jos, where he is expected to be fully engrossed in the full-time course, a ,soft' acting chairman would be appointed to take his position.
   
   Ribadu reportedly got the IG letter on Thursday, December 13, 2007 and honored the invitation the same day. IG Okiro was said to have told him of the plan to send him to a full-time course in Kuru, while at the same time enumerating the accruable benefits of such course to the EFCC boss. The police boss was said to have hinted Ribadu that he was being picked for the course as a way of preparing him for eventual ascension to the post of the Inspector General of Police. Many believe that though IG Okiro is a fine officer and well-spoken of, he was simply passing a prepared script.

2. 2. www.africansinamericanewswatch.com

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   Published on: 1/8/2008   Last Visited: 5/2/2008

   The redeployment of Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, the Executive Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to attend one-year advanced course at the Nigeria Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) has caused a lot of tension for popular but very fragile government of Umaru Yar'Adua.
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   Needless to state that Mr. Ribadu has done extremely marvelous job, having practically opened the eyes of Nigerians (and the world) to the extent of massive looting of the treasury by Nigerian public officials; he has record arrest of highly placed public office holders and court convictions unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.
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   But in the case of Ribadu and Nigeria's very complex, convoluted and extremely dicey socio-political circumstances, the actions of some key Nigeria public officers who ought to be partners in the war against corruption are highly deplorable.

3. 3. www.efccnigeria.org

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   Published on: 12/11/2007   Last Visited: 1/11/2008

   Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who was represented by the Head of Training, Mr. Ayo Awoniyi, said that corruption is rampant in Nigeria because the spirit of magnanimity which the society demands encourages the leaders to steal.