“Activities of Ribadu lately show he loves the company of others for sympathy which is a departure from what Fawehinmi mentored. ‘Fight for what is right always, even if you have to fight alone’. Indeed, Gani fought alone many times. Fawehinmi was known to be consistent, steadfast and un-distracted; but Ribadu seems to come here and go there (a rolling stone)”.
Ribadu’s profile
Ribadu, born November 21, 1960 in Yola, Adamawa State, was appointed chairman of EFCC in 2003 by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. He was reappointed in 2007; was also promoted to the position of assistant inspector general of police. The promotion on April 9, 2007, three weeks before newly elected president Umaru Yar’Adua was sworn-in, was later challenged on the basis that it was “illegal, unconstitutional, null and void, and of no legal effect.” In December 2007, the then inspector-general of police, Mike Okiro ordered that Ribadu be temporarily removed from the position of EFCC chairman and that he should attend the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Kuru, Jos, Plateau State, for a mandatory one-year course. The decision was heavily criticised by many Nigerians who saw it as politically-motivated and likely to set back the fight against corruption. On December 22, 2008, he was dismissed from the Nigerian Police force by the Nigerian Police Service Commission (PSC). He left Nigeria and in April assumed a fellowship at the Centre for Global Development. He returned to join the ACN as a presidential aspirant in the 2011 general election.
In 2012, he was appointed chairman of the Petroleum Revenue Task Force set up by Dieziani Alison-Madueke, minister of Petroleum Resources.
*Culled from BD Sunday
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