Politics Why Buhari Shouldn't Probe Ex Presidents for Corruption - Obasanjo

Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo, while speaking with
students of the Obafemi Awolowo University on Friday said fighting
corruption should start from the presidency.
"The president promised he will fight corruption. And there is no
doubt that he has shown that he is willing to fight corruption.
Corruption is a hydra-headed monster.

"I believe very much that fighting corruption just has to start from
the top. That is, from the president, the vice president, the senate
president, the speaker of the House, the Chief Justice of Nigeria
(CJN)."

Just as he mentioned the CJN, one of the participants, who was later
joined by others, asked the former president to include himself and
other former presidents in the list of those to be probed for
corruption.
Reacting, he said: "Did I hear somebody say and you? Oh, you mean and
former presidents? Former presidents have either done their bit when
they were in office or they did not.

"The instruments we are using today (to fight corruption) were all
fashioned out by me when I was in office. We did not have anything
like the instruments (ICPC, EFCC) before. Not only did I bring up
these instruments, I also looked for the right people who could make
the instruments work.

"Nuhu Ribadu was in charge of the EFCC and then, the fear of Ribadu
was the beginning of wisdom. For ICPC, I specially head-hunted
somebody like Justice Mustapha Akanbi to run it," he said.

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