Farida Waziri a Serial Liar - Nuhu Ribadu
A former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has described his
successor, Farida Waziri, as a liar in response to Mrs Waziri's claim
that Mr. Ribadu served under her.
Mr Ribadu, on Thursday, stepped into a controversy generated by a
series of interviews conducted by the media unit of the EFCC with past
and present government leaders and officials.
In one of the interviews, published in the commission's magazine, Zero Tolerance, former President Olusegun Obasanjo questioned Mrs. Waziri's qualification as head of the EFCC, and said her tenure severely reversed Nigeria's gains in anti-corruption war under Mr. Ribadu.
The comments drew a fierce response from Mrs. Waziri who accused the former president of manipulating the EFCC with Mr. Ribadu as his tool, to seek a third term in office.
She defended her competence for the job by citing a string of academic and professional qualifications, amongst which she claimed to have supervised Mr. Ribadu and the current EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, when they all served in the Nigeria Police.
"To further expose the height of mischief in the allegations," she said of Mr. Obasanjo's comments, "the past and present chairmen of the EFCC have both worked under me, yet someone can open his mouth to say I am not qualified to head the same agency."
Mr. Ribadu denied those claims on Thursday, and labelled Mrs Waziri a "merchant of falsehood" who recycles "crooked statements to the point of cliché, in spite of attempts at clarifications."
Inasmuch as I try not to comment on EFCC after my tenure, I found Mrs Waziri's utter lies totally unsafe to let pass.
- Nuhu Ribadu (@NuhuRibadu) September 12, 2013
He said it was inappropriate for Mrs Waziri to claim he worked under her.
Sad. Again Farida Waziri went to town with her lies that I worked under her or that she "trained" me. Pure lie. I never worked with her.
In one of the interviews, published in the commission's magazine, Zero Tolerance, former President Olusegun Obasanjo questioned Mrs. Waziri's qualification as head of the EFCC, and said her tenure severely reversed Nigeria's gains in anti-corruption war under Mr. Ribadu.
The comments drew a fierce response from Mrs. Waziri who accused the former president of manipulating the EFCC with Mr. Ribadu as his tool, to seek a third term in office.
She defended her competence for the job by citing a string of academic and professional qualifications, amongst which she claimed to have supervised Mr. Ribadu and the current EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, when they all served in the Nigeria Police.
"To further expose the height of mischief in the allegations," she said of Mr. Obasanjo's comments, "the past and present chairmen of the EFCC have both worked under me, yet someone can open his mouth to say I am not qualified to head the same agency."
Mr. Ribadu denied those claims on Thursday, and labelled Mrs Waziri a "merchant of falsehood" who recycles "crooked statements to the point of cliché, in spite of attempts at clarifications."
Inasmuch as I try not to comment on EFCC after my tenure, I found Mrs Waziri's utter lies totally unsafe to let pass.
- Nuhu Ribadu (@NuhuRibadu) September 12, 2013
He said it was inappropriate for Mrs Waziri to claim he worked under her.
Sad. Again Farida Waziri went to town with her lies that I worked under her or that she "trained" me. Pure lie. I never worked with her.
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