Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs Farida Waziri on Saturday in Makurdi, Benue State disclosed that she was a subject of “fierce attacks, slander, blackmail and threats” from oil barons while she held sway at the anti graft agency.
She said that her only sin was trying to end oil money induced corruption.
In a statement read on her behalf by her media aide, Ade Williams at Benue State University, Makurdi during the inauguration of World Bank’s Africa Centre of Excellence Project, Centre for Food Technology and Research, Mrs Waziri who lamented the country's over-dependence on oil revenue said that she was happy with President Buhari's anti corruption crusade.
“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.
“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,” she said.
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