EFCC Meets Media, CSOs On Fight Against Corruption

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, has reiterated the request for collaboration and heavy knowing of issues progressive successful tackling economical and fiscal crimes and different acts of corruption arsenic potent tools of achieving sustainable occurrence successful the fight.

He stated this successful Abuja astatine the 2025 EFCC-Media/Civil Society Organisation’s capacity-building workshop.
Olukoyede, who was represented by manager of Public Affairs, Wilson Uwujaren, stated that the committee placed beardown values and value connected gathering collaboration and communal knowing with each stakeholders.

He said, “The media and civilian nine organisations, nary doubt, are captious to warring each signifier of economical and fiscal transgression and different acts of corruption. The nexus betwixt the media and civilian nine organisations is powerful; they are similar the close receptor and near receptor of the aforesaid horse.

They person a shared mandate to exposure shadiness and integrity deficits successful individuals and groups nationwide. This is wherefore the committee considered it imperative to bring unneurotic these stakeholders successful a capacity-building workshop”.

Speaking further, Olukoyede stated that the issues for treatment revolved astir operational, legal, and media issues, adding that knowing the cardinal issues volition interaction nationalist appreciation of the EFCC’s work.

Speaking connected the challenges of prosecuting cases of economical and fiscal crimes successful Nigeria, a manager successful the ineligible and prosecution department, Commander of the EFCC, CE Dr. Ben Ubi stated that the efforts of the EFCC president and the commission’s officers person implicit the years helped region the sanction of Nigeria from the database of non-cooperating countries and territories of the Financial Action Task Force, FATF, showing that if not for the painstaking efforts of the EFCC, the authorities would person agelong been blacklisted.

Speaking connected cryptocurrency fraud and different emerging fiscal crimes, an serviceman from the cybercrime conception of the commission, Sam Agbi Enahoro, urged the stakeholders to debar engaging successful immoderate concern oregon online commercialized that whitethorn jeopardise their enactment and integrity.

He explained the technicalities successful cryptocurrency transactions and pointed retired however fraudulent dealings are creeping into the business.