THISDAY ONLINE: "The plot to remove the chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, may hit the rocks as the Federal Government is in a dilemma over the legal roadblocks it has to scale.
Reports have suggested that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mike Okiro, had been directed to issue a memo to the EFCC chairman directing him to proceed on a one-year course at the National Institute for Policy and Stra-tegic Studies (NIPSS), in Kuru, near Jos, Plateau State, in what is thought to be an indirect way of removing him from office.
However, the EFCC Act does not expressly permit the President or the IGP to send the chairman of the commission on compulsory study leave or remove him except on verifiable grounds – a development, THISDAY was told, has put the government in a fix."
Reports have suggested that the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mike Okiro, had been directed to issue a memo to the EFCC chairman directing him to proceed on a one-year course at the National Institute for Policy and Stra-tegic Studies (NIPSS), in Kuru, near Jos, Plateau State, in what is thought to be an indirect way of removing him from office.
However, the EFCC Act does not expressly permit the President or the IGP to send the chairman of the commission on compulsory study leave or remove him except on verifiable grounds – a development, THISDAY was told, has put the government in a fix."