The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the
International Police, INTERPOL.
The memorandum is part of a
collaboration aimed at tackling corruption in the country.
The acting Chairman of EFCC,
Ibrahim Magu, received the INTERPOL delegate led by Commissioner of Police,
Shola Subair, CP INTERPOL, at the EFCC Headquarters, Jabi, Abuja on Friday and
expressed his appreciation for the initiative.
He said the move will go a long
way in checkmating the activities of fraudsters across the globe and Nigeria in
particular.
Magu said the MoU will further
create a greater technical teamwork and allow the EFCC to be connected to the
194 member countries of the organisation, stressing the need for the Nigerian
leading anti-graft agency’s staff to be seconded to the Interpol.
Magu also used the opportunity to
explain how the Database can be used in tracing the movement of looters in an
out of the country and also how this collaboration will give EFCC access to the
194 member countries of the Interpol.
“All sort of criminality is
taking place and looters are everywhere, now that the EFCC is going for
extradition of looters outside the country, there is no better time than now,
EFCC will use it opportunity judiciously”, Magu said, adding that the MoU will
strengthen the EFCC’s efforts in areas of monitoring illegal assets.
He further added that, with the
elections fast approaching, “the EFCC is on the watch out. We would not fold
our hands and allow people move illicit funds indiscriminately in the name of
vote buying.
Nigeria is blessed with both
human and natural resources. It is high time the generality of Nigerians is
rewarded for God-given natural resources that abound”.
Subair, who led the delegation,
stressed the importance of the INTERPOL/EFCC partnership, as it would further
strengthen the anti-corruption efforts of the anti-graft agency.
He said: “INTERPOL provides a
wide range of policing expertise and capabilities, supporting three main crime
programmes: Counter-terrorism, Cybercrime, Organized and Emerging Crimes. We
are mobilising for the enlistment of all law enforcement agencies in Nigeria,
and we consider to kick-start the assignment at the EFCC.”
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