Friday, January 4, 2013

Nigeria drowns in corruption

by Eze Eluchie



When Ibrahim Lamurde, the head of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) leaves his house every morning, where does he really tell his family he is going to? To play golf? To tackle corruption?

Considering the avalanche of multi-million dollar looting, brigandage and pilfering of State resources which have become the order of the day, and the fact that right from the onset, Lamurde had been unfit and improper for the job, I really believe the man simply goes into his air-conditioned office, orders a bottle of beer and chills out. Except ofcourse when he is running after small time pranksters who are sending ‘sweet deal’ offers to con gullible and greedy loonies.

In the interim, our kleptocrats, tired of waiting for the niceties of budgetary appropriations, contract bidding and padding, supply of counterfeits or outright non performance of contracts after contract sums have been collected, now go straight to the National Mint and take as much as they can carry.

Yet, we have people collecting salaries at the EFCC and various insecurity agencies in Nigeria!

Time is fast running out for a convenient Restructuring and Renegotiation of the contraption!


http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/41943/2012/12/07/mint_scandal_n21_billion_worth_n1000_notes_missing.html



Picture: Ibrahim Lamurde- Chairman, EFCC


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