Nigeria's anti-graft agency said on Tuesday it is ready to put 10 ex-governors on trial accused of corruption, money laundering and abuse of office.
"We have completed investigations on 10 former governors and their trial will start soon," Femi Babafemi, spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told AFP.
He did not disclose the names of the affected governors, but added that the trial of 11 other former governors was ongoing in different courts in the oil-rich west African country, the continent's most populous with 140 million people.
Several former government officials, including ex-governors and ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, have been the subject of probes into misuse of public funds between 1999 and 2007, since President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua came to power on May 29 last year.
Source: AFP
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