Former
President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Saturday that the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission became politicised after he left office in 2007.
Obasanjo
stated this during the 2017 annual public lecture of the Dorcas Oke Hope Alive
Initiative, titled, ‘Corruption and the challenge of the African child.’
He
said, “When I was elected President in 1999, my administration took the issue
of corruption very seriously and we established anti-corruption agencies like
the EFCC and ICPC. They were given the needed support to fight corruption and
they did their best.
“But
after we left office, they became politicised and weakened to a level that they
were unable to provide their services. In fact, one of the governors, who was
jailed for corruption, was supposed to find a replacement for EFCC boss then Nuhu
Ribadu. You know the type of replacement he would bring.”
He
added that Nigerian youths were the ones bearing the brunt of corrupt
leadership in the country.
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