ALMOST two years to the day they were arraigned before the Abuja High Court for their attempts at circumventing the law, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s agents, Douglas William and Abba Ishaku, are facing the price of their actions.
The duo was handed down five-year prison terms for taking bribes to compromise their duties as agents of the Commission. According to the anti-corruption agency, the officers asked for $630 in bribe money.
The Commission’s statement released to the media stated that the men were arrested in October 2010 for their attempts at receiving bribe money from the chairman of a local government in Borno State, Mr. Kullima Kachalla.
Promising to help the Kachalla destroy documents leading to his impending indictment for corruption, the agents were on standby to receive the bribe money which Kachalla had brought to the Commission’s Abuja office when they were arrested.
A few Nigerians who monitored the development scoffed at the whole episode, wondering when the ‘bigger fish’ in Nigeria’s vast oceans of corruption would begin to face justice for their corruption crimes.
“Yes, corruption is corruption, whether big or small. But why should we be impressed when it is more often the little guy who gets to face the law, while the big thieves walk free around the country, getting rewarded for their crimes, said Mr. Waju Ogunleye, a social commentator who spoke to sharpedgenews.com by phone from Nigeria?”
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