Wole Soyinka: EFCC Should Go After Past Nigerian Leaders


Nobel Literature laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said that for the fight against corruption in Nigeria to succeed, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has to beam its searchlight on some country’s former leaders.

He said “until we make some of our past leaders walk through those doors of the EFCC new office, the fight against corruption would not have the needed traction.”

Soyinka spoke on Monday at the opening of a meeting of heads of anticorruption agencies from Commonwealth Africa, in Abuja, the Nigerian capital

Soyinka said all the money stolen by former Head of State Sani Abacha should be fully recovered.

The Nobel laureate particularly made reference to a leader of a neighbouring country who, he alleged, collected millions for the purpose.
from dailypost

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