EFCC advocates collaboration, deep understanding in anti-corruption fight

Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has described collaboration and knowing arsenic cardinal to achieving sustainable occurrence successful tackling economical and fiscal crimes.

Olukayode made this connection successful a property merchandise by EFCC Spokesperson Dele Oyewale connected Thursday successful Abuja.

He spoke astatine the 2025 EFCC- Civil Society Organisation’s Capacity-Building Workshop successful Abuja.

The president was represented by the Director of the Public Affairs Directorate of the commission, Commander CE Wilson Uwujaren, of the EFCC.

According to him, the committee places beardown values and value connected gathering collaboration and communal knowing with each stakeholders.

“The media and civilian nine organisations, nary doubt, are precise captious to the enactment of warring each signifier of economical and fiscal crimes and different acts of corruption.

The nexus betwixt the media and civilian nine organisations is precise strong.

”They are similar the close receptor and near receptor of the aforesaid horse; they person a shared mandate exposing shadiness and integrity shortage successful individuals and groups crossed the country.

”This is wherefore the committee considered it imperative to bring unneurotic these stakeholders successful a capacity-building workshop,” helium said.

Olukoyede said that the issues for treatment revolved astir operational, legal, and media.

He stated that knowing the cardinal issues would heighten nationalist appreciation of the EFCC’s work.

“Equally important is the relation of the media and CSOs successful driving the preventive model of the commission.

”Discussion of each these germane topics volition broaden and widen their knowing and nationalist grasp of however they are being tackled by the EFCC.

“Our committedness to stakeholders’ engagement is absolute. Public ownership of the combat against corruption remains the astir potent and enduring modality for driving and sustaining the fight,” helium said.

According to the EFCC boss, this is intimately related to the enlightened speech connected salient issues progressive successful the anti-graft fight.

He said that the EFCC was focused connected moving the federation forward.

“Without fearfulness oregon favour, and successful taking specified a route, corruption is bound to combat backmost by immoderate means it is designed.

”We tin not beryllium rattled oregon intimidated arsenic acold arsenic we are concerned, close is might, and is often said, conscience is an unfastened coiled which lone the information tin heal,” helium said.

A Director successful the Legal and Prosecution Department, Commander of the EFCC, CE Dr Ben Ubi, spoke connected the challenges of prosecuting cases of economical and fiscal crimes successful Nigeria.

Ubi commended the efforts of the EFCC president and the commission’s officers.

He stated that specified efforts had, implicit the years, helped region Nigeria’s sanction from the database of non-cooperating countries and territories of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

According to him, this demonstrates that, had it not been for the EFCC’s painstaking efforts, the state would person agelong been blacklisted.

Also, an serviceman from the cybercrime Section of the commission, Sam Agbi-Enahoro, shed airy connected cryptocurrency fraud and different emerging fiscal crimes.

Agbi-Enahoro urged stakeholders to refrain from engaging successful immoderate concern oregon online commercialized that whitethorn compromise their enactment and integrity.

He explained the method aspects progressive successful cryptocurrency transactions and pointed retired however fraudulent dealings were infiltrating the business.

He besides cautioned the assemblage against unrealistic and excessive offers, stressing that “when it is excessively bully to beryllium true, delight bash not bash it.”

Speaking, the EFCC Spokesperson urged the media and CSOs to articulation the committee successful driving those modalities.

Oyewale, a Deputy Commander of the EFCC, spoke astir the relation of the media and civilian nine organisations successful driving the preventive model of the commission.

He urged the civilian nine organisations and media professionals to articulation forces successful driving the preventive model of the anti-corruption combat initiated by the EFCC Chairman.

“If we hold until the wealth oregon assets are stolen earlier we present embark connected a betterment drive, determination is nary mode you tin retrieve all.

”If determination are modalities successful spot to forestall the looting of the treasury oregon immoderate different fraudulent act, past we volition beryllium capable t...