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Monday, 21 January 2008
The Action Congress (AC) has said the threat issued to Nigeria by the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), over the decision to send former EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu on course, amounts to undue arrogance on the part of the agency and a blatant interference in Nigeria’s affairs.

In a statement issued in Abuja Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party wondered what gave the agency the audacity to dictate to a sovereign nation on an issue that is perfectly within its jurisdiction.

It said the claim by UNODC that the decision by the government to send Ribadu on course would affect the
implementation of a $30 million project in support of the EFCC was sheer blackmail, saying the agency can keep the money if the condition for granting it to Nigeria is to strip the country of its sovereignty.

"The reaction of the UNODC to the Ribadu saga is an insult to Nigerians and a disregard for the  country’s sovereignty. Does the government need to consult the UN before making appointments? Was it the UN that appointed Ribadu as EFCC Chairman? Is the UN the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that must ratify any government appointment?

"We hope the UNODC will come out to refute the statement credited to its Executive Director, Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, that President Umaru Yar’Adua must clarify the government’s decision on Ribadu.

"If not, then the agency must have overstepped its bounds in issuing what amounts to a query to a
government of a sovereign nation. This is absurd, totally unacceptable and simply amounts to dictating
to Nigeria how to run its institutions," AC said.

The party said while Nigeria welcomes the support of its international partners in fighting corruption,
such must not be seen as an avenue to trample on the country’s sovereignty.

"In any case, we reject the notion that corruption is a native of Nigeria. Afterall, multinationals
operating in Nigeria, from Wilbros to Siemens, have been at the centre of huge corruption allegations in
recent times.

"Some of these people, who maintain a sanctimonious stance on the fight against corruption, are the same ones stoking the fire of corruption. For them to now resort to issuing subtle or not-so-subtle threats to Nigeria over the fight against corruption, just because an individual was asked to undergo a necessary training, is the height of unbridled arrogance and must stop forthwith," AC added.
 
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1. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 21-01-2008 16:18 - Guest
 
 
AC and Atiku
Our Nigerian society is so corrupt that even a convicted criminal has his own supporters. One would surmise that poverty, greed and more importantly, ignorance contribute to the hilarious and noisy support the fraudulent, habitual looters of public funds and thieves in our society receive from some members of the society. Why cover the truth and condone evil? 
One would have expected the members of the Action Congress to react to the CNN and other media houses´s reports on the wealth of Atiku: His mansion in Abuja and his "white house" in the U.S. Action Congress sees and has seen nothing good in the eight years Ribadu served the nation even when more than eighty percent of Nigerians stood by him. I think they saw Ribadu with an evil-coloured spectacle. Action Congress with their leader would have brought more woes to the Nigerian nation than we have suffered during all the past military regimes put together. His men were ready to loot the national treasury and bring Nigeria on her knees begging for alms from the west. 
It was this ill of the society that the EFCC with Ribadu at the helm has braved to do these past eight years, selective in their operations or not. 
The AC should rethink their position on Nigeria and her weal before they are accussed of being too "action congress". The UNODC meant it well for Nigeria in their fact finding mission and in their letter to the president. The Ac should prove that they are not for corruption. Or do they want to cripple Nigeria economically?
 
2. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 25-01-2008 03:51 - Guest
 
 
AC slams UN agency
In a society where charlatans are at the corridors of power the stance of AC leaders concerning a Ribadu and UN office is what should be expected,they expose their eptitude in governance as they stand in defense of a nation they and their likes have so impoverished under the aegis of sovereignty.Is it not the corrupt nature of leaders like them that gave the foreigners and their firms the audacity to come to our nation to exploit us even through the national ID cards?.Instead of dwelling on the substance they are pursuing shadows in the name of sovereignty.While not inferring that only Ribadu can rid our nation of corruption,he should however be praised for daring to step on toes which the likes of AC leaders if given the opportunity will gladly lick for their stomach sakes.They ought to have been concerned with how they can help the new EFCC boss to achieve greater success by exposing their friends that have stolen the wealth of our nation,can you imagine the person of Aminu jibril in the senate stating that it was not right for senate member to expose the security report of their friends,instead of putting the nation first,he was placing the personal interest of friends over and above that of the sovereign nation they were elected to serve.
 

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