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Yar'Adua Forced Me Into Exile - Ribadu
By Our Reporter/Sunday June 21, 2009
As controversy over his exit from the Nigeria Police lingers on, the former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),Nuhu Ribadu has accused President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of
forcing him into exile.
Ribadu said the Yar'Adua government was after his life and recalled the traumatic experience he went
through while at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos in Plateau State.
The former EFCC boss made these points duirng an interview with the Hausa Service of the British
Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) in London.
He asserted that, right from the on set, Yar'Adua was not comfortable with the mode of operation at the
EFCC, when he was in charge. He said "Whatever that happened that is how God wants it, but it is
something with the government. The way we worked in the past, this government doesn't want it.
Lamenting his ordeal, Ribadu further explained: "They said I should go to school, I was in school. They
followed it up and said they had sacked me. Not done on the graduation day, I was not allowed to receive
my certificate, I was forced out with my children and family.
"The President knows and he has sent me out of the country."
Ribadu disagreed with opinions in some quaters that he was used and dumped by former President
Olusegun Obasanjo. He argued: "People should know there was differences in our work. This Obasanjo I
don't even know him. It was work that joined us and he gave me freedom and has never said Nuhu come
and do this.
" But you cannot stop people with their dispositions. I investigated him and found nothing indicting
against him but I got his daughter.
Ribadu is currently studying at the prestigious Oxford University in the United Kingdom."The President
knows and he has sent me out of the country."
Asked whether he was making a blanket allegation on the present administration, Ribadu stated, "Who
will have done this work if not him (Yar'Adua)?"
"Is this even something that we will argue? Everybody knows that it was the government. God knows what
happened and God will judge us."
On Yar'Adua's recent interview with The Guardian on his inability to have resigned from the commission
he simply quipped: "I don't even understand what was credited to him, he is the President. Did he call me
and said I should leave the work, and I did not? What is there if not suffering and making enemies and
foes? God knows I did this work with nothing and without greed..."
However, he dismissed the allegation that he has taken documents from the commission. "It is not true, I
worked with the support of other committed people to build the EFCC to where we left it."
On the allegation that former President Olusegun Obasanjo used him and dumped him, Ribadu argued:
"People should know there was differences in our work. This Obasanjo I don't even know him. It was work
that joined us and he gave me freedom and has never said Nuhu come and do this.
" But you cannot stop people with their dispositions. I investigated him and found nothing indicting
against him but I got his daughter.
"Today I am suffering here because I don't want to stay abroad. It is suffering here. Only recently I
started earning salary after one year.
"I got a job with the Centre for Global Development. I thank God the demand for my service is increasing
in the world. Hardly two or three days without my attention being needed across the world. I thank God
for this."
He is currently studying at the Oxford University in London.
By Our Reporter/Sunday June 21, 2009
As controversy over his exit from the Nigeria Police lingers on, the former Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),Nuhu Ribadu has accused President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of
forcing him into exile.
Ribadu said the Yar'Adua government was after his life and recalled the traumatic experience he went
through while at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos in Plateau State.
The former EFCC boss made these points duirng an interview with the Hausa Service of the British
Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) in London.
He asserted that, right from the on set, Yar'Adua was not comfortable with the mode of operation at the
EFCC, when he was in charge. He said "Whatever that happened that is how God wants it, but it is
something with the government. The way we worked in the past, this government doesn't want it.
Lamenting his ordeal, Ribadu further explained: "They said I should go to school, I was in school. They
followed it up and said they had sacked me. Not done on the graduation day, I was not allowed to receive
my certificate, I was forced out with my children and family.
"The President knows and he has sent me out of the country."
Ribadu disagreed with opinions in some quaters that he was used and dumped by former President
Olusegun Obasanjo. He argued: "People should know there was differences in our work. This Obasanjo I
don't even know him. It was work that joined us and he gave me freedom and has never said Nuhu come
and do this.
" But you cannot stop people with their dispositions. I investigated him and found nothing indicting
against him but I got his daughter.
Ribadu is currently studying at the prestigious Oxford University in the United Kingdom."The President
knows and he has sent me out of the country."
Asked whether he was making a blanket allegation on the present administration, Ribadu stated, "Who
will have done this work if not him (Yar'Adua)?"
"Is this even something that we will argue? Everybody knows that it was the government. God knows what
happened and God will judge us."
On Yar'Adua's recent interview with The Guardian on his inability to have resigned from the commission
he simply quipped: "I don't even understand what was credited to him, he is the President. Did he call me
and said I should leave the work, and I did not? What is there if not suffering and making enemies and
foes? God knows I did this work with nothing and without greed..."
However, he dismissed the allegation that he has taken documents from the commission. "It is not true, I
worked with the support of other committed people to build the EFCC to where we left it."
On the allegation that former President Olusegun Obasanjo used him and dumped him, Ribadu argued:
"People should know there was differences in our work. This Obasanjo I don't even know him. It was work
that joined us and he gave me freedom and has never said Nuhu come and do this.
" But you cannot stop people with their dispositions. I investigated him and found nothing indicting
against him but I got his daughter.
"Today I am suffering here because I don't want to stay abroad. It is suffering here. Only recently I
started earning salary after one year.
"I got a job with the Centre for Global Development. I thank God the demand for my service is increasing
in the world. Hardly two or three days without my attention being needed across the world. I thank God
for this."
He is currently studying at the Oxford University in London.
President Yar'Adua & Ribadu