Why Waziri was removed as EFCC Boss?

FURTHER details have emerged as to the reasons that led President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, of her position.

Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the final straw that compelled President Jonathan to effect the removal had to do with a representation of a league of international anti-graft agencies that was said to have

expressed fears that Nigeria was playing politics with the fight against corruption with Waziri in the saddle.

Sources said that the international anti-graft fighters actually made representation to President Jonathan, with the claim that going by Waziri’s style and measures taken, Nigeria was being seen as “playing politics with the anti-graft war.”

Another source also said that a lot of things were linked to her which are not in line with anti-graft war. “A number of things were also linked with her which were not in tandem with the anti-corruption  fight,” another source said, adding that the president, in removing her, was convinced of the need to re-invigorate the anti-graft war.

It was also confirmed that Section 3(2) of the EFCC Act 2004 empowers the president to remove the chairman of the EFCC or any member of the governing board without reference to the National Assembly. The law actually empowers the president to remove the chairman in “national interest.”