Abuja — The announcement last week by the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mike Ehindero, that Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, is to proceed to National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru, near Jos, signaled the end of a fierce battle to unseat headship of one agency that has become a terror to the club of past governors accused of being corrupt.
The sacking of the anti-graft czar could not have come at a better time, according to one of the critics of the commission, than now when the agency is involved in prosecuting two governors, James Ibori of Delta and Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti at the courts of law.
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