EFCC now a toothless bulldog – Obasanjo...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo during his 79th birthday celebration on Saturday,took a retrospective look at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and concluded that the anti-graft agency has become a toothless bulldog after the exit of the pioneer chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

 He said the ex-EFCC boss handled the job so well, and people coined the saying that the the fear of Ribadu was the beginning of wisdom.

His Words:

“As all know when Nuhu Ribadu was handling the EFCC, he handled it in such a way that people coined the saying that the fear of Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom.

“And the thing you will ask is, how did we go down? How did we lose that, how did we, Nuhu Ribadu is still here, he is still alive, the institution that we started together is still there, what made the institution to become a toothless bull dog?”

Obasanjo emphasised the need to be serious as a nation, if the nation really wants to develop.

“We need to work things out so that we don’t take two steps forward, one step and three steps backward,” he said.