Nigeria: The EFCC Arrest of Past Office Holders

19 October 2011

IT'S been five months, May to October, since baton changed hands among elected Nigerian leaders; for one group of their 'excellencies' to vacate office for another. And that's how long it's taken the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to 'perfect' its case against some past governors suspected to have abused their positions while in office.

Five months might be long enough, some might even say, too long for the anti-graft agency to make its first move against these group of Nigerians long accused, rightly or not, of impoverishing the treasury of the states they governed, either through direct stealing and illegal award of contract, etc.

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