Many leading civil society organisations in the country, which have been spearheading the graft war with the anti-graft agency are however no more convinced that the government of Nigeria is serious and committed to the battle to rid the land of corrupt officials going by the back-and-forth disposition of the administration since Ribadu was removed as the head of the EFCC by powerful political forces who were opposed to the graft war.
Rafsanjani commended the efforts of the EFCC but also noted that the effectiveness of the anti-graft agency is marred by interferences from the executive, noting that such interferences "make the work of the agency difficult.
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