Ribadu hails Buhari’s record
THE chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has given a pass mark to the leadership of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari for his past track record when he was the Head of State and C-in-C of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Similarly, he commended the role played by the late General Tunde Idiagbon when he was General Buhari’s 2ic.
The EFCC chairman made the disclosure in an interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America (VOA), yesterday and monitored by our Political Desk shortly after delivering a paper in honor of Chief Gani Fawahenmi.
Malam Ribadu disclosed further that if leaders should behave like Chief Femi Falana, Chief Gani Fawahenmi, General Muhammadu Buhari and the late General Tunde Idiagbon, Nigeria would have been a better country.
He accused the various military regimes (excluding General Buhari’s and General Murtala’s) as the initiators of corruption in this country, adding that beside being untouchables, they also personalized the country’s oil riches as well as squandered government’s money without a second thought.
Asked if his exoneration of General Buhari would not be seen as supporting a particular presidential candidate or his involvement into the country’s political arena especially in these crucial times, Malam Ribadu stated that each and every Nigerian was fully aware of the good governance of General Buhari during his tenure in office, adding that General Buhari also maintained the good leadership trait of the late General Murtala Muhammad.
He said though the two leaders were members of the Armed Forces yet they exhibited exemplary leaderships.
Turning to the achievements so far recorded by his commission, Malam Ribadu thanked God for the comission’s successes in tackling the menace of 419ners, prosecution of corrupt officials in banks and government as well as the consfication of over $5bn from them, pointing out further that about N200bn had been returned to various banks through his commission’s efforts on eradicating corruption in such institutions.