Adieu EFCC

I met the EFCC director of Operations, Ibrahim Lamorde, for the first time in November while working on a report on the activities of internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys) in Lagos. He sounded intelligent and courageous. I later realised that he was indeed the brain behind the success of the EFCC. He carried out his job without fear despite threats and intimidation.
Am not trying to sing Ibrahim Lamorde's praise but just thinking aloud what has become of the nation's anti-graft agency.
The police boss, Mike Okiro, claimed EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, was sent on compulsory study leave to enhance his professional knowledge. There are already insinuations that he is indeed being trained to take over as police boss when Okiro's tenure runs out. Is Ibrahim Lamorde also being sent on course to take over as the police DIG? Maybe the presidency will have to approve an accelerated promotion for him from assistant commissioner of police to deputy inspector general when he completes his two-month course at the police college, Jos, Plateau State.
Ribadu and Lamorde are obviously the arrowheads of the nation's anti-corruption crusade and easing them out of the system same time on mere excuses of professional training casts serious doubts over federal government's sincererity in the pursuit of the crusade to rid the society of bad eggs.
If only i had an opportunity to make any imput i would have suggested Ibrahim Lamorde be made the new EFCC boss to continue from where Ribadu stopped. Ribadu assumed the chairmanship of the EFCC as an assistant commissioner of police which is the current rank of Lamorde.
There are already reports of plans by some ex-governors who ran out of the country to escape EFCC prosecution to return and face 'prosecution'. Is this a confirmation of fears that the EFCC will no longer bite?
I don't agree with claims by some commentators that the nation's anti-corruption crusade should not be personalised. I dont have the courage to do it and i know so many can't face the heat too. Why completely ease out those with the skills and courage to brave all odds same time?
Congratulations to the 'powerful clique' behind this successful operation to cripple the nation's anti-corruption crusade.
I look foward to the speedy dismissal of all allegations of corruption levelled against some powerful former public office holders.
Welcome to the world of a brand new 'toothless' EFCC.