The Head of Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, has said that the commission has
recovered a total of $11bn from its inception in 2003.
Uwujaren
also said that the commission had handled a lot of cases involving
advanced free fraud, money laundering, contract scam, internet fraud and
had recorded over 100 convictions.
The EFCC
Spokesman made the comment while speaking at the Forum of Spokespersons
of Security and Response Agencies organised by the I-Nigeria Initiative
led by Mrs. Ada Apiaffi, in Abuja on Wednesday.
“As
most of you are aware, the commission has the statutory responsibility
for the investigation of all economic and financial crimes…
“In
the last eleven years we have been in operation, we have handled
thousands of cases in these areas and I want to report that we have
recorded over 100 convictions as a result of our investigations.
“In terms of assets recovery, we have recovered assets of well over $11bn in 11 years and I think that is a record,” he said.
Uwujaren
said the EFCC had also created a new unit known as Combined Inter
Agency Task Force section entrusted with the responsibility of
‘maximising the opportunities of international law enforcement
partnership for the benefit of the commission and by extension, the
nation.’
He stated that the EFCC’s relationship
with international law enforcement organisations and development
partners had witnessed a boost because of the confidence of such
partners on the commission’s activities.
Uwujaren
said that the EFCC had also recovered over N5bn from those implicated in
the subsidy scam and was making efforts to bring the suspects to
justice.
The EFCC Spokesman said that the
commission had not dropped the case against the impeached Governor of
Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako.
According to him, the
commission was still investigating the case against the former governor
stressing that nothing had gone wrong with the on-going investigation.
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