Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, has said it was tough for her as czar of the anti-graft agency. She said the corrupt elite have had their way for such a long time in Nigeria and it was about time they are pegged back like the Buhari led administration is trying to do.
She said Nigeria’s over dependence on oil revenue has done more harm than good to the economy and called for a diversification to agriculture.
“No doubt, our over-dependence on oil revenue has brought us to the point where we are as a nation today. As an anti-corruption czar, I have seen how some of those the nation entrusted with its oil resources in the past helped themselves more than the country”, Waziri said at the Benue State University, Makurdi, during the inauguration of the World Bank’s Africa Centre of Excellence Project, Centre for Food Technology and Research.
She said the Buhari administration’s anti-graft posture should be applauded by all well meaning Nigerians.
“With our focus on agriculture, the struggle by political office holders to steal oil fund would diminish while the national wealth will be in the hands of the people instead of a privileged greedy few. We cannot all dig oil wells in our backyard but we can all farm in our backyards. It is time to end oil-money induced corruption in our land by buying into President Buhari’s vision and take ownership.
“I have made my contributions in the fight to discourage that and even recovered some of the looted funds in billions of dollars. For daring to do that, I came under fierce attacks, slander, blackmail and threats but by God’s grace and long years of experience, I survived all. I am glad today that indeed, there is a new sheriff in town.”
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