Nuhu Ribadu, best known as the pioneer and most successful chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says that the necessity of national service, especially to defeat corruption, made him say yes to the appointment.
“If we would effectively isolate and defeat this scourge therefore, we must all see it as a preeminent national security threat,” he said in a statement issued today. “We must see it as a war within our borders, a war that has assumed a systemic and endemic character, but to which all must now urgently enlist with our different capacities, or accept to all go down with the ship.”
He said he does not think it is inappropriate to invest the same “modest talents and capabilities” in Nigeria that he has readily offered many foreign communities, from sister nations in Africa to far flung places like Afghanistan.
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