Since Nigeria is one of the most corrupt nations in the world, hardly surprising.
Bruce http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=108440 <http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=108440®ion=5> ®ion=5 NIGERIA EX-POLICE BOSS ARREST 31.3.2005. 13:34:45 Nigeria's former chief of police has been arrested amid allegations of corruption by the country's financial crimes watchdog. Tafa Balogun was taken into custody by police officers acting for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), but has not yet been charged. A commission official, who spoke to the Agence France Presse news service on condition of anonymity, confirmed Mr Balogun's arrest but would not comment further. Mr Balogun has been under a cloud of suspicion since the EFCC announced in January that it had traced large sums of illicit money in 12 bank accounts back to him. He resigned suddenly as inspector general of police after the allegations came to light. A federal high court in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, this week granted a request by the EFCC to freeze 2.7 billion naria (A$27m), suspected to have been diverted by Mr Balogun into five separate bank accounts. Mr Balogun's lawyer said he did not expect charges to be laid until the end of the week and criticised authorities for denying him access to his client. "I have not been able to see the former inspector general since Monday night when he was arrested," Tunji Abayomi told reporters. He has accused the EFCC of unfairly hounding Mr Balogun in a "careless, unwarranted and unjustified abuse of authority." Mr Balogun is the latest high profile Nigerian figure to be caught up in a new anti-corruption push by President Olusegun Obasanjo. Last week, Education Minister Fabian Osuji was sacked over a bribery scandal. In a televised broadcast, the president announced Mr Osuji's dismissal, saying that he had given a 55 million naira bribe to Senate President Adolphus Wabara and several legislators to increase his ministry's budget allocation for 2005. Mr Wabara has denied the claims and resisted calls to quit as the leader of the Senate. President Obasanjo has been waging a campaign to rid Nigeria of the rampant corruption that has left the country ranked as the world's third worst offender. Transparency International's 2004 index of corruption placed only Bangladesh and Haiti ahead of Nigeria. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
