Nigeria: Group Faults Choice of Charged Persons As Ministerial Nominees

16 December 2008

A GROUP of anti-corruption crusaders under the aegis of Zero Corruption Coalition (ZCC), has taken a critical assessment of the anti-corruption drive of government since the emergence of President Yar'Adua's government and lamented that the nomination of some former governors and others facing corruption charges in the law court as ministerial nominees, had further confirmed the increasing outcry that government's anti-graft crusade is fast collapsing.

Speaking in Lagos on behalf of the group, its Chairman, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, decried the ongoing travails of the former Chairman of EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and called on the Nigerian Police Force, the EFCC and the government to leave Ribadu alone, saying those who continue to hunt Ribadu have achieved no more than expose the government's anti- corruption campaign in Nigeria for the ruse that it is beginning to appear.

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