EFCC’S WAZIRI MAY BE THINKING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Dear Editor,

EFCC’S WAZIRI MAY BE THINKING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

When Mrs. Farida Waziri recently said that she would bring her anti-graft agency against all those perceived corrupt politicians thereby ensuring that they were not elected or re-elected into office, many anti-voices were heard mostly from some suspected guilty ones.  Some even averred that Waziri has no constitutional right to do so.  Whatever divergent views held by people, she requires support of all right-thinking Nigerians, on this.

But before this, Farida should purge herself of double-speaks and double-standards bereft of her administration. Her husband recently won a Gombe State senatorial seat under PDP platform and this has thrown up the fact that Farida is not apolitical.

Secondly, when Farida was newly appointed; probably trying to show her dissention with corruption, she announced that a first-term governor of south-south, within few months in office, bought property worth about N1billion in Abuja. Would this particular governor be among those that Farida intend to stop otherwise she has been compromised? There is also the truth that the US Consulate reported to EFCC that someone who bears the same surname and also a PA to a governor, presented a personal bank account containing over N1.5billion lodgement, yet Farida turned her face the other way and never investigated the case.

There was the intercepted US$3.4million (in raw cash) being couriered from Lagos to Abuja for a particular governor. Farida waited for a special petition that would enable her investigate the matter. This posture gave Bank PHB more than 45-days later to claim paternity of the cash; a situation considered by many as an after-thought. Furthermore, there is the SUV Jeep car gift to Farida which she has not been able to acquit self satisfactorily. Farida sponsored to the Senate an amendment to the Immunity (Impunity) Clause that has been shielding the President, Vice-President, Governors and their deputies from criminal prosecution; what is the position of the Bill? As a result of all these present, it is important that EFCC officials should also be policed; in other words, an independent body should be set up for this.

Dr. Julius Madaki, Shehu Close, Bauchi, Bauchi State.