Commission, Customs Deepen Ties against Money Laundering, Smuggling

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS)have resolved to deepen their collaboration against wealth laundering, smuggling and different economical crimes.

The solution was reached erstwhile the recently appointed Customs Area Controller of the Oyo and Osun Area Command, Comptroller G.I. Aliyu, paid a familiarisation sojourn to the acting Director of the Ibadan zonal bureau of the EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE I Hauwa Garba Ringim.

Speaking, the customs country controller said, “The Nigeria Customs Service, arsenic a captious revenue-generating agency, shares the imaginativeness of the EFCC arsenic the frontier against wealth laundering, smuggling, and different economical infractions that endanger our nationalist development.

“This sojourn is strategical successful strengthening our existing collaboration. The synergy betwixt the Nigeria Customs Service and the EFCC is indispensable.

“Our mandates intersect successful assorted operations: curbing illicit fiscal travel to trade-based wealth laundering, intercepting contraband goods and enforcing fiscal policies. The request for continued quality sharing and communal enactment cannot beryllium overemphasised.”

He disclosed that the Command nether his enactment was committed to deepening inter-agency collaboration with the EFCC and different cardinal information and instrumentality enforcement agencies.

“We judge that done collaboration, capableness gathering and transparent connection channels, we tin execute large occurrence successful curbing economical sabotage and improving nationalist revenue,” helium added.

He commended the Ola Olukoyede enactment of the EFCC for its singular achievements successful plus recovery, enforcement, prevention, and nationalist enlightenment and sensitisation connected corruption, economic, and fiscal crimes.

According to him, “these efforts resonate profoundly with the Nigeria Customs Service’s thrust towards integrity, professionalism and accountability successful work delivery”.

He noted that the EFCC earned its planetary estimation arsenic Nigeria’s starring anti-corruption and instrumentality enforcement bureau done a dogged committedness to warring economical and fiscal crimes.

Responding, Ringin expressed delight with the visit, noting that it was an unequivocal measurement towards achieving the mandates of some agencies.