Analysts Laud Proposed EFCC, ICPC Merger

Some Analysts yesterday said that the proposed merger of the EFCC and ICPC would boost the Federal Government’s anti-corruption crusade.
The analysts were speaking on the proposed merger in separate interviews with newsmen in Lagos.
The merger of the two anti-corruption agencies was recommended to the Federal Government by the Presidential Committee on Rationalisation and Restructuring of Federal Government’s Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies.
The Lagos State Secretary of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Mr Ayo Akintayo, said that merging the two agencies would make government to concentrate on handling corrupt cases.
“I support the merger because it will help to bring more funding to the agency and also allow for more government concentration on the discharge of its duties,” Akintayo said.
The initiator of the Peoples Movement for a New Nigeria, Alhaji Yahaya Ndu, said: there is nothing wrong in merging the two agencies because it was duplication in the first place.
“But the issue is, how ready is the government about fighting corruption.”
The National Chairman of the defunct Movement for the Restoration and Defence of Democracy, Malam Danjuma Mohammed, however, believed that merging the two agencies would not make them efficient.
“The only thing that can make them efficient is for the two agencies to have an inspiring leadership.”
According to him, the effect of the emerging of the agencies is to reduce administrative cost.