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AN APPRAISAL OF THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION IN THE LIGHT OF THE DISASTER OF THE NIGERIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION POLITICS 2002-2015
Abstract: The establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (hereafter known as the EFCC) in 2002 was necessitated by rampant corruption and failure of previous anti-corruption strategies in Nigeria. Vested with huge and enormous power to fight corruption in the country, the commission has largely failed to achieve the given mandate. That corruption since its establishment instead of abating is now at an endemic state is no longer doubtable. The evidence of endemic corruption in Nigeria is manifesting all over the country: the abandoned government projects, worsening state of under-development indices and realities to mention but a few. This shows that the intrigue behind the establishment of anti-corruption strategies in Nigeria has not actually changed from what obtained in the past which always led to their failure. Against this backdrop, the paper, adopting historical analysis method, appraises the EFCC in light of the disaster of the Nigerian anti-corruption politics between 2002 and 2015. The outcome is that since the Nigerian state is endemically corrupt and so insincere in the fight against corruption, the EFCC as an organ of the state is also corrupt. Based on this, the paper contends that the EFCC’s failure to achieve its mandate is as a result of the politics of anti-corruption in Nigeria. Consequent upon this, the paper therefore, advocates that for the EFCC to succeed, President Buhari’s government should as a matter of expediency avoid using it as a political pawn for the advancement of selfish and group interests like other leaders before him. Key words: Politics, Corruption, the EFCC, Nigeria, Transparency