Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, Thursday said the agency has secured over 140 convictions in 2016.
The list, he disclosed, included those he tagged ” high profile criminals”.
He however did not not disclose names of those he referred to as high profile convicts.
“In just six months of this year, we have secured over 140 convictions, including some elusive ‘high profile’ criminals. We have recovered billions of dollars worth of stolen funds and blocked numerous avenues of money laundering,’’ he said.
He also stated that the Commission had also given its prevention mandate a new lease of life, adding the people were now fully informed of its activities on all communication channels.
Magu charged Nigerians to imbibe the culture of ‘ living with clean hands’ as a way of stamping out corruption from the society.
Magu, who stated that the job of EFCC entails confronting looters of the nation’s commonwealth, taking on impunity and restoring hope to the hopeless, said the Commission had been reshaping the face of law enforcement in Nigeria in the past 13 years.
In his welcome address titled ‘‘We Must Win The War on Corruption and Impunity’’ during the launch of EFCC Clean Hands Campaign on Thursday, May 26, 2016 at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the anti-graft Czar added that the Commission had kept faith with its mandate and the expectations of Nigerians.
‘According to him, the new strategies being employed by EFCC had enabled Nigerians to take direct ownership of the war on corruption.
‘‘Citizens are now more disposed to preemptively act against corruption; and where the act has been committed, they are willing to work with EFCC to fish out the criminals.