Nigeria: 'ICPC, Code of Conduct Bureau Have Failed'

1 September 2011

Nigeria's other anti-corruption bodies, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) have failed to compliment the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Human Rights Watch has said in a 64 page analysis chronicling EFCC's performance in its almost nine years of existence.

The report titled 'Nigeria: Corruption on trial?' says legally both ICPC and CCB have powers that in some ways outshine those of the EFCC but they have been ineffectual in relation to their statutory power and displayed little appetite for tackling high-level corruption.

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