Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that the menace of graft ravaging the nation will not end until justice catches up with corrupt Nigerian leaders.

Soyinka stated this on Monday while speaking at the 8th Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa held in Abuja.

While narrating his recent experience when he visited the new head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), he expressed optimism that some corrupt Nigerian leaders would be detained in its detention facility.

“That we have been drained in this nation by corrupt leadership and their agencies is nothing to reiterate. It is given. And I took the trouble yesterday to visit the headquarters of the EFCC. I wanted to see what would be the mode of hospitality of some of our leaders who will surely, sooner or later, pass through the doors of that building.

“I am not a vengeful person but I think until we ensure that some of our leaders pass through those doors, this struggle against corruption in this country will not be won, will not be over.

“And so I spoke to Magu and I said I want to see where the presidential wing is. I said as a human rights person, I want to make sure you treat them right when they come here and he said sorry, it is an egalitarian institution and I said I would take that message back to them that they should get ready to go down a little bit in status when the time comes and justice catches up with them,” Soyinka said.

The renounced playwright added that at the moment, the responsibility of anti-corruption agencies should primarily be to recover the rest of Nigeria’s looted funds and assets which could be deployed in developing the nation’s economy.