₦airaland Forum

SalamRushdie:
His records in Lagos were clear for everyone to see but Nigerians love deceiving themselves

helinues:
How would you as an Obidients react if you found out that this government have been the one funding Peter Obi?

Brenbentondiaz:
But if you read a report that the CDS said they can't overpower turji as he has more armament than the army, I'm very sure you won't ask for evidence before launching into your traditional wailing on how Nigeria is useless. The absolute state of you evil forest dwellers brains.

helinues:


It's not a business as usual .

We have a new sheriff in town

PressMyButton:
After God Devil, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria

fuckJones:
don't forget it was your brother Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi that abolished regionalism and resource control on May 24, 1966, with his Decree Number 34, the Western Region of Nigeria would have been better than Dubai today. That act set back Nigeria perhaps 100 years backwards, and we have not recovered from it until today.

it will never be well with ironsi

Felabrity:
You see that RCCG

Pastorship no dey hard to get

helinues:
Those who wasted their time creating senseless threads like this are now beggars as they wasted their precious time on futile efforts

People are busy planning about their lives but the op is after tribal jingoistic, why won't the likes of op continue to dey shout hardship

Second nonsense threads this morning about the Yoruba's that's inside this beautiful life oo

IN 2024, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission dismissed 27 officers for “fraudulent activities and misconduct.” This has again highlighted the poor perception of the anti-corruption body and the country’s calamitous corruption burden.

The Executive Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, said the offenders would be investigated as part of efforts to rid it of bad eggs. It is good that Olukoyede has dismissed the offenders and promised to investigate and effect disciplinary measures against culpable offenders. But he must go beyond dismissal.

The strength of the penalty lies in prosecution. This will further cleanse the organisation and serve as a deterrent entrenching a sustainable culture of rectitude.

Besides, the body cannot have different laws for corruption within and without. Restricting penalties for its staff to administrative procedures is wrong. Indeed, the officers who are supposed to be transparent should face stricter penalties.


Since its founding in 2003, the EFCC has been steeped in allegations of corruption and gross misconduct, from the leadership to the staff.

In 2020, the Federal Government suspended the chairman, Ibrahim Magu, from office over corruption allegations. Nothing beyond suspension from office has been heard since the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential Panel set up to investigate Magu submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari.

In June 2023, the government also suspended his successor, AbdulRasheed Bawa, from office over corruption allegations. In July 2020, 12 directors and senior officials of the anti-graft body were suspended for graft.


In 2012, two EFCC officers were sentenced to five years on four counts of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence.

Early this month, the commission detained 10 Lagos Zone Command officers for breaking into the exhibit room and stealing foreign currency and gold items.

Some EFCC officials are notorious for striking deals with criminals to share their loot and letting them off the hook.

The best anti-corruption effort of EFCC was jaundiced. Its claims of an “unprecedented record of 1,268 convictions, including that of a former governor and a serving senator who was convicted for defrauding his state to the tune of N7.65 billion” under Magu in 2019 were undermined by his suspension about a year later over a raft of allegations.

The UNODC says, “The frequency of bribery is, on average, higher in rural areas than urban areas. In 2023, bribe-payers living in urban areas paid on average 4.5 bribes, while those living in rural areas on average 5.8 bribes.” Many anti-graft officials benefit from this ravening stench.

It is unthinkable that a body tasked with eradicating graft has become the house of corruption itself. This is a huge indictment of the organisation. The recruitment process into the EFCC seems not to be thorough.

Transparency International ranked Nigeria 144 in 2018, 146 in 2019, 150 in 2022 and 145 in 2023 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perception Index. Its profile contrasts sharply with Ghana, Benin and Senegal which tied 70th. The dismissals are a threat to the 2023 improved ranking.


The Federal Government’s attitude to the war against corruption gives the country away as one not seriously fighting graft. Jonathan and Buhari pardoned ex-governors Joshua Dariye, Jolly Nyame, and Diepreye Alamieyeseigha after they were convicted of corruption. This is antithetical to the graft war.

When the EFCC reluctantly goes after politically exposed persons, the cases are flippantly pursued in court and eventually thrown out.

So, the anti-graft body must check the recruitment process that has infected it with shady characters. It should revitalise its intelligence gathering, encourage whistleblowers and make stringent efforts to apprehend officials living beyond their means.

HandyRex:
Nairaland and Wike News na like Akara and Bread

bellosulaiman:
He is yet to comment on the EFCC personnel sh0t in Anambra state. Charity begins at home they say.

123yes:
YOU CANNOT BE A LEADER IN YOUR LIFE IF YOU CONTINUE INSULTING THOSE GOD HAS PLACE TO LED THE PEOPLE
OBASANJO IS NOT GOOD. JONATHAN WOMAN RAPPER, BUHARI A TERRIORIST. TINUBU A DRUGGER. EVEN GOD HIMSELF COMES TO GOVERN NIGERIA, YOU PEOPLE WILL STILL COMPLAIN THAT IS WHY TINUBU NO SEND ANY ONE. STILL HE IS DOING IS BEST.

meditator:
He will never smell Aso Rock

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, on Wednesday insisted that Justice Binta Nyako of the Abuja Federal High Court will not handle his case.


Kanu ordered his lawyers to ensure that Justice Nyako stays off his case following her recusal.

On September 24, 2024, Kanu had asked Justice Nyako to ‘hands off’ his trial on grounds of lack of confidence.


Following the call, the trial judge stepped down from Kanu’s case and transferred his case file to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, John Tsoho.

However, during his routine meeting with his legal team led by lead counsel Aloy Ejimakor at the Department of State Services, DSS, facility in Abuja, Kanu said Justice Nyako would be disobeying her own order by restarting the case.

This was contained in a statement issued by Ejimakor on Wednesday.


According to the statement, Kanu’s case should be transferred to the Southeast if no judge in Abuja is willing to take up his trial.

Ejimakor said: “The routine visitation to Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu continues unabated, as the legal team just concluded a crucial visitation today.

“The central issue arising at today’s visitation is the upcoming court date for the continuation of MNK’s case.


“Due to its constitutional implications, Onyendu instructed the legal team to take certain prompt steps to ensure that his case is not handled by the same Justice Binta Murtala-Nyako who had withdrawn from the case by virtue of the order of recusal entered on 24th September 2024.

“The point was stressed that should the case still lie with Justice Murtala-Nyako, it would mean that the same court is disobeying an order that it made.

“We are therefore looking forward to going to court as long as another Judge of the Federal High Court is assigned to the case.


“If no other judge in Abuja is willing to handle the case, the Chief Judge is free to transfer the case to Umuahia, Awka, Enugu, Asaba, Port Harcourt or any other Federal High Court within the former Eastern Nigeria where the offenses were alleged to have happened or allegedly had impact.