Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has described the Economic and
\nFinancial Crimes Commission, EFCC, under the leadership of Ibrahim Magu,
\nas a toothless bulldog.<\/p>\n
The former President who was addressing friends and family members who had
\ngathered in his home to celebrate his 79th birthday, said over the years
\nthe anti-graft agency has lost its vigour.<\/p>\n
He said the EFCC which was set up during his reign as President has gone
\ndown in its performance and fight against corruption.<\/p>\n
Comparing the tenure of Nuhu Ribadu, the first Chairman of the anti-graft
\nagency, Obasanjo said the present EFCC was not more than a \u201ctoothless
\nbull-dog\u201d, calling for an appraisal aimed at determining while the EFCC
\nhas lost courage.<\/p>\n
According to him, \u201cthe good thing is that we all enjoyed the work and we
\nall felt that we were contributing our own meaningful quota to the
\ndevelopment of the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs all know, when Nuhu Ribadu was handling the EFCC, he handled it in
\nsuch a way that people coined the saying that the beginning of wisdom is
\nthe fear of Ribadu.<\/p>\n
\u201d And the thing you will ask is how did we go down, how did we lose that,
\nhow did we? Nuhu Ribadu is still here, he is still alive, the institution
\nthat we started together is still there, what made the institution to
\nbecome a toothless bull dog.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to work things out so that we don\u2019t take two steps forward, one
\nstep and three steps backward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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