The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it has strengthened its capacity to combat emerging financial crimes, assuring Nigerians that it possesses the technology, expertise and investigative tools required to counter increasingly sophisticated criminal schemes.
The anti-graft agency also identified delays in Nigeria’s criminal justice system as a major obstacle to the fight against corruption, stressing the need for faster investigations, prosecutions and adjudication to sustain public confidence in the country’s anti-corruption efforts.
The EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, stated this on Thursday at the inaugural Town Hall Meeting of the EFCC’s Zero Tolerance Club at Ahmadu Bello University, Kongo Campus, Zaria.
Represented by the Head of the Economic Governance Section of the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC II, Sadiq Abubakar, Olukoyede delivered a keynote address titled, “Following the Money: Legal Loopholes and the Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria.”
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