Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has said he is proud to have been the President under whom Nigeria made her best improvement in the Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International.
Jonathan stated this in a press statement sent to DAILY POST on his behalf by his former Special Assistant on New Media, Reno Omokri.




The statement was a response to claims by former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss, Farida Waziri, in which she said at an interactive session in Lagos that she will kneel down to thank former President Goodluck Jonathan for sacking her as the commission’s boss.
According to Mrs Waziri, had she not been sacked by the ex-President, she would have been traumatized by now, given the ongoing revelation of alleged grand corruption that took place under the last administration.
However, Jonathan said that Farida Waziri has a history of badmouthing former Presidents to enter the good books of the incumbent President.




He said: “My attention has been drawn to comments made by Farida Waziri to the effect that she was removed as Chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission because of a particular case she was handling.




“Mrs. Waziri also said that she received a call from Aso Rock over this case which instructed her to drop her investigations.
“It is understandable that when there is a new government in power, people would want to ingratiate themselves to the new administration and one of the easiest way to do this is by demonizing the previous government.
“Nigerians will remember that Mrs. Farida Waziri was appointed as the chairperson of the EFCC by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua in May 2008 under very controversial circumstances after the unceremonious removal of the pioneer Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu.
“It will be recalled that after she was appointed, Mrs. Farida Waziri made some uncomplimentary remarks against former President Olusegun Obasanjo because he said “I know that the woman they brought in to replace Ribadu (Farida Waziri) was not the right person for that job”.



“In response to that statement, Mrs. Farida Waziri described ex-President Obasanjo as a man known for “speaking in a manner that betrays his status as an elder statesman”. She also accused President Obasanjo of ‘mischief’.
“Farida Waziri made those comments to ingratiate herself to the then administration and her accusations against former President Obasanjo were denied.
“Mrs. Farida Waziri also accused her predecessor, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, of being used by former President Obasanjo “to push the aborted third term agenda”. And claimed to have been Mr. Ribadu’s instructor at the Police Academy.
“Again, her comments were found to be untrue and Malam Ribadu released a statement then and said as follows;




“This is a unclad lie that she keeps flaunting to seek undue relevance and validate her own appointment. At no time in my career did I work under the same section or unit as her. In fact, contrary to the Waziri’s claim that she ‘trained’ me, it was I that actually lectured her and others, on fraud investigation and prosecution, when she was newly posted as Head of Special Fraud Unit even though she was my senior in rank.
“That Mrs. Farida Waziri has a history of telling lies against former Presidents in order to ingratiate herself to the serving President is an established fact and old habits die hard.
“I never called Farida Waziri from the Aso Rock Presidential Villa or any State House at any given time, neither did he ask her to drop or take up any investigation.
“Let it be known that there is no statute of limitations on corruption cases and if Mrs. Farida Waziri has any evidence that she was asked to drop any cases of corruption, she is challenged to show proof of such.




“I fired Mrs. Farida Waziri for reasons he would choose not to disclose publicly for now, but Nigerians may want to remember that Nigeria continued to sink in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index during Mrs. Waziri’s tenure at the EFCC.
“Things got so bad at her last year at the EFCC (2011) that we moved from 134 in 2010 to 143 in 2011 which represented a backward movement of 9 points. Which God fearing leader would leave a person responsible for such retrogression as the head of a sensitive institution as the EFCC.
“It would also be recalled that the transparency website, Wikileaks, exposed that both the US Federal Bureau of Investigations and the London Metropolitan Police refuses to cooperate with the EFCC under Farida Waziri because of doubts they had about her credibility. Those Wikileaks cables are still publicly available.
“However, after the sack of Mrs. Waziri in 2011, Nigeria made her highest improvements in the annual Corruption Perception Index till date in 2014 when we moved eighth places from 144 to 136, so in essence the facts speak for themselves.




“I am proud to have been the President under whom Nigeria made her best improvement in the Corruption Perception Index of Transparency International. That is a fact. And so he is not concerned about the opinion of Farida Waziri or other persons as opinions cannot overthrow facts.”





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Ok

Thank you sir

JONATHAN IS FAR BETTER THAN BUHARI. HOW MANY OF YOU AGREE WITH ME?

GEJ MEANT WELL AND DID WELL.
Some elements were just determined to sabotage his efforts.
Those SABOTEURS are now in the payroll of KARMA.

I have said it before...Jonathan the most corrupt and idiotic President Nigeria ever had, can only deceive the equally brainless ipob followers and not sane Nigerians!

Just the way Buhari has brain washed you zombie. By the time Buhari steps down we will be privileged to know about the atrocities committed under his watch...... Jonathan is a noble man go and hug transformer if u hate him much

NgeneUkwenu:
I have said it before...Jonathan the most corrupt and idiotic President Nigeria ever had, can only deceive the equally brainless ipob followers and not sane Nigerians!

The difference between Jonathan and the dullard is that, Jonathan is a realist who knows that corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of Nigeria system therefore the best way to go about it is first to improve the well being of Nigerians and make the political class' less attractive then you will see corruption fight itself naturally, which is why we witnessed the exodus of political criminals from pdp into the deceptive "one chance apc"
On the other hand, the dullard and his crew are a compendium of deceitful liars who partook in the foundation laying of corruption in Nigeria's economic institutions,their stock in trade is media trials which will never achieve any successful prosecution of the accused,meanwhile their families and cronies are looting Nigeria dry from behind.
They have only ended up using their fake anticorruption crusade to cause hunger and famine in the land.

You are right.

NgeneUkwenu:
I have said it before...Jonathan the most corrupt and idiotic President Nigeria ever had, can only deceive the equally brainless ipob followers and not sane Nigerians!

Lame! Bet you nearly had a heart attack reading those incontrovertible facts my lady

If I give you one dirty slap,
Ogogoro ineffectual buffoon

jpphilips:
They still have presidential spokes person in opposition?
I don't get it!!

Yes. Jonathan made the mistake of not speaking out to defend himself and showcase his achievements in office at all times and every given opportunity. For this lacuna, APC crept in with their lies and propaganda to destroy one of the best presidents in history.

If his aides were up and about, I bet you most of the ill conceived notions about his govt wouldn't be.

Buhari came shouting kwaraption kwaraption, kwaraption, but was surrounded by very corrupt elements who put him in office using proceeds of corruption.

...haters have arrived. Jesusloveyou is here

Jesusloveyou:
If I give you one dirty slap,
Ogogoro ineffectual buffoon

You don't disappoint shaaa

Why not counter him with facts instead of resorting to seizures.

NgeneUkwenu:
I have said it before...Jonathan the most corrupt and idiotic President Nigeria ever had, can only deceive the equally brainless ipob followers and not sane Nigerians!

Mamarisky

Godbless you and not that corrupt dullard blood sucker in that asorock.

Goodluck Jonathan`s major achievements include being the first Nigerian President to relinquish power after defeat. But the most important one is that people tend to believe that you cannot record economic progress unless you deprive your citizens of basic freedoms, yet our economy became the biggest in Africa, without him locking Nigerians up or killing anyone. Well, this second achievement is almost a global first. No honest Nigerians can defend his anti-corruption credentials, though!