Acknowledgements
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1The author wishes to acknowledge the encouragement, support, and contributions received from several individuals and institutions in Nigeria and around the world in the course of writing this book.
2First, I would like to thank profusely all those individuals who volunteered useful information and important data during my field research trips to various parts of Nigeria, especially to the federal capital, Abuja, and states such as Lagos,
3Oyo, Bayelsa, and Zamfara, to mention just a few. In this category I must mention those patriotic Nigerians—who, despite very tight official and personal schedules, took precious time out to grant me interviews and/or offer useful materials—such as Justice Kayedo Eso (Rtd.), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Chairman of the National Commission on Corruption and Economic Crimes (1989) and of the Judicial Panel on the Reform/Reorganization of the Judiciary (1994); Dr. John O. Magbadelo, former Assistant Director, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in the Presidency and later Deputy Director of the Federal Ministry of Defence; Mohammed A. Bamalli, Head of Human Resources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC); Ibrahim Balarabe, staff of the Department of Media and Public Affairs of the EFCC; Rabe Nasir, formerly of the Operations Department of the EFCC and later member of the Federal House of Representatives; Uffem I. Eket, Prosecutor with the Department of Legal Services of the EFCC; Mike A. Sowe, Head of the Department of Public Education at the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Offences Commission (ICPC); Nduese Essien, former Chairman of the Federal House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, National Ethics and Values, and later Federal Minister for Housing.
4Similarly, I wish to thank several representatives of civil society organisations and of some states in Nigeria who assisted with interviews and relevant documentation: Prof. Assisi Asobie, President of Transparency in Nigeria (TIN); Auwal I. Musa, staff member of TIN; Prof. Alex Gboyega, Department of Political Science of the University of Ibadan and Vice-President of the Convention on Business Integrity (CBI); Robert F.O.N., Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan; Nelson Belief, former Chairman of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly Committee on Ethics and Human Rights and currently member of the Federal House of Representatives; Seilbarugu Werinipre, Chairman of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly Committee on Anti-Corruption and Urban Development; D. Dumaro, Special Adviser (Political Affairs) to the Governor of Bayelsa State; E. Ogbe, staff member of the Ministry of Information and Culture and former President of the Bayelsa State Senior Civil Servants Association. I must also acknowledge the help of people such as Ibrahim Na’ayi Salihu, Director of Information Services, Ministry of Information of Zamfara State; A.B. Mahmud, Chairman of the Zamfara State Anti-Corruption Commission; Muh’d Sani Takori, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of Zamfara State; Shikafi S. Chamba, President of the Zamfara Patriotic Alliance; Adamu Mu’azu, Public Relations Officer of Zamfara State Police Command; and Ibrahim Tudu, Secretary-General, Global Network for Islamic Justice, Zamfara State.
5While outside Nigeria, I also benefitted from the documents, comments, and expertise offered to me by several erudite scholars. Among them were John Heilbrunn, Assistant-Professor at the Colorado School of Mines; Peter M. Lewis, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University; Nicolas Van De Walle, Professor at the Department of Government, Cornell University; John Peel, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Patrick Chabal, Professor of Politics at Kings College, University of London; Dr. Jan Kees van Donge, Institute for Social Studies, The Hague; Stephen Ellis, Research Professor, African Studies Centre, Leiden, and Professor at the Free University, Amsterdam; Professor Daniel C. Bach, Director of Research of CNRS and Professor of Political Science of the Institut d’Études Politiques, Bordeaux; and of course, Ruth Marshall, former Director of the French Institute for Research in Africa, Ibadan, and now Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.
6This project could not have come to fruition without the generous financial and institutional support the author received from several institutions and their managers. Notable in this regard were the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA), Ibadan, the Leventis Research Corporation and Centre of African Studies/School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and the African Studies Centre, Leiden, who provided financial grants to me and welcomed me as Visiting Research Fellow during the course of preparing this book. I remain very grateful to these institutions and their staff for their kind support throughout the period of my fellowship and even beyond.
7My deepest gratitude goes to the language editor of this book, Ruadhan Hayes, as well as to the book’s three anonymous reviewers for their excellent work. Their comments have helped strengthen my arguments and perfect my writing skills. I am no less indebted to the publishers, the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA), Ibadan, and the African Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden, including their able administrators, Dr. Gérard Chouin (IFRA), and Prof. Ton Dietz and Dr. Dick Foeken (ASC), for accepting the responsibility for publishing and distributing this book.

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