Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu,\u00a0 Thursday said the agency has secured over 140 convictions in 2016.<\/p>\n
The list, he disclosed, included those he tagged ” high profile criminals”.<\/p>\n
He however did not not disclose names of those he referred to as high profile convicts.<\/p>\n
“In just six months of this year, we have secured over 140 convictions, including some elusive \u2018high profile\u2019 criminals. We have recovered billions of dollars worth of stolen funds and blocked numerous avenues of money laundering,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
He also stated that the Commission had also given its prevention mandate a new lease of life, adding\u00a0 the people were now fully informed of\u00a0 its activities on all communication channels.<\/p>\n
Magu charged Nigerians to imbibe the culture of \u2018 living with clean hands\u2019\u00a0\u00a0as a way of stamping out corruption from the society.<\/p>\n
Magu, who stated that the job of EFCC entails confronting looters of the nation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
In his welcome address titled\u00a0\u2018\u2018We Must Win The War on Corruption and Impunity\u2019\u2019\u00a0\u00a0during the launch of\u00a0EFCC Clean Hands Campaign\u00a0on 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.<\/p>\n
\u2018According to him, the new strategies being employed by EFCC had enabled Nigerians to take direct ownership of the war on corruption.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Citizens 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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