Death threat

In this report, DYEPKAZAH SHIBAYAN examines how the fight against corruption has put the lives of whistleblowers at risk.

“Until the last day of entertaining witnesses, the SAN, Femi Falana, put a call to the ICPC office to say that it was wrong. He said the letter conveying his third dismissal was delivered to him while he was temporarily bedridden in the hospital. They brought the letter to me in the hospital. Ahmed Idris, a suspended accountant-general of the federation, is currently being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged N109 billion fraud. After he was reinstated, Akeju was transferred from the college to the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Akeju said he was eventually dismissed for his “principled stance” and after seven and half years of despair, he was reinstated by Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, in 2016. “I lost my mother, I could not bury her in the [morgue]. The sum, he alleged, was diverted between 2008 and 2014. “They twisted my position, my words and it became a lot of crisis. Videos and photos of the sting operation shared by the anti-graft agency were similar to scenes from a raid of the stash house of a drug cartel. Some of them went to my then-boss to go and collect money from him,” Akeju told TheCable. Citizens aspiring to get into public service seek to have a successful career and earn a living to take care of their families.