Nigeria's
foremost anti-graft agency, EFCC, has restated its complete commitment
to beaming its flashlight on corrupt politicians.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that with the
renewed fight against graft in the country, corrupt Nigerians will have
no hiding place.
The Punch reports that the EFCC Zonal Head, South-South, Mr. Ishaq
Salihu, made this remark during a stakeholders’ meeting with pipeline
surveillance contractors organised by the 2 Brigade of the Nigerian Army
in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Salihu explained that measures have been put in place to ensure
that Nigerians who stole from the nation’s coffers and take their loot
outside the shores of the country were forced back home and prosecuted.
The anti-graft chief pointed that the current administration of
President Muhammadu Buhari had shown the political will to fight
corruption, even as recommended that stiffer punishment should be meted
out to those involved in corrupt practices.
He specifically said that the Federal Government had entered a
treaty with the government of the United Arab Emirate to ensure that
Nigerians who stole the nation’s money to purchase any item in Dubai
would be back home and prosecuted.
Salihu said: “There is now a political will to fight
corruption. The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has shown
this. We went to Dubai and signed a treaty that all those who took the
nation’s money abroad and bought items would be brought back home and
prosecuted.
“Those involved in corruption should be made to face stiffer
punishment. Only very few in the country are getting what should be used
for the development of this country.
“Now, there is a deliberate shift and anybody that does not
believe that the narrative has changed is living in a dreamland. We can
stem the tide of corruption by giving timely information to EFCC and
other security agencies.
“When you see a person who has no source of livelihood, you say
the person has made it. But at the end, you realise that the person has
kidnapped somebody’s daughter.”
He expressed dissatisfaction that some Nigerians were involved in
arms deal scandal, oil scam and pension scam, adding that the EFCC and
other security agents were security agents were trying their best to
tackle corruption and other social vices.
