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RIBADU: What do they want?

posted on Friday, August 08, 2008 11:07 AM

The former Chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu was today officially invited for questioning by the Jos Office of the State Security Service (SSS), 24 hours after he was demoted by two ranks to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP).

A source in the presidency told SaharaReporters that Ribadu's arrest is imminent. The source further revealed that a cocktail of charges has been compiled by the Attorney General of the Federation, Michael Aondoakaa, an archenemy of Ribadu. Said the source: "He is likely to be accused of influencing the disqualification of otherwise-qualified politicians before the 2007 Elections".

The source continued: "He (Ribadu) is also to be accused of attempting to influence the cancellation of the Presidential Elections at the Presidential Election Tribunal. This is akin to treasonable felony, according to the Minister of Justice".


The Attorney-General’s plan is to detain the former EFCC boss without bail after charging him to court within 48 hours in cynical deference to Umaru Yar'adua's often-mouthed respect for the rule of law. A high-level security source sympathetic to Ribadu told SaharaReporters that once he is behind bars, he might be infected with a deadly disease or poisoned with harmful chemicals. "They have figured out that as Muslims we do not do autopsies on death", he added.

Ribadu’s demotion and impending humiliation are widely seen as continued victimization of the anti-graft czar whose efforts have led to the prosecution of several former state governors especially James Ibori of Delta State whose worldwide assets were frozen by a UK High court. Earlier this year, Inspector-General Okiro, who was himself sponsored to the job by Ibori, abruptly sent Ribadu off to a training course. Ibori was the main financier of the election of the current Nigerian Head of State, and he continues to wield considerable influence over Yar’Adua’s administration.

Our source stressed that Ribadu will be killed if Nigerians don't rise up and defend him, warning that the former EFCC boss “will die of ‘natural causes’ within the shortest possible time".

He then added the chilling forecast: “Let the world know that Nuhu Ribadu is about to be sacrificed like Ken Saro-Wiwa."

Meanwhile, the detained former head of the Economic Governance unit of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu is spending his 3rd day in detention at the Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Abuja. Magu, a police officer recently transferred to the Ekiti State Command, was detained on the orders of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Okiro since Monday morning as he honored an invitation to the headquarters.

Lawyers and family to the detained officer said they have been barred from visiting him in detention since yesterday. Magu was being moved between two police detention facilities at Area 10 and Asokoro, another source told Saharareporters that he was hospitalized since yesterday.

Read full report here
http://www.saharareporters.com/www/news/detail/?id=686


But what kind of a country does not protect his own after they have discharged their duties without corruption. there should be some form of protection for people like that after they have left service. else people will serve in fear and will never carry out their duties well for fear of after service,by the time the new Efcc boss sees what happened to ribadu how do they expect him to do the right things when he sees the end after service she will definately compromise.

YOUND PEOPLE IN NIGERIA NEED TO PROTEST THE INHUMANE TREATMENT GIVEN TO OUR ANTI CORRUPTION CZAR, MALLAM NUHU RIBADU. ALL THE TREATMENT GIVEN TO HIM IS JUST AS A RESULT OF THE TOES HE HAS STEPED ON WHILE IN OFFICE. WE CANNOT SIT DOWN AND WATCH THE HIM BEING HUMILIATED LIKE THIS

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