Nigeria: Playing Politics With Corruption

4 November 2012

High profile corruption cases filed over five years ago are still at plea stages, even as the accused persons have returned to political and economic prominence. LEADERSHIP SUNDAY reviews the ugly trend which has become an object for political stunts. Chibuzo Ukaibe writes with agency report.

At a 2006 plenary session of the Senate, Nuhu Ribadu, then Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, appeared to answer questions on why the agency had failed to submit the annual report of its activities to the Senate as stipulated by the act establishing it.

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