The prominent anti-graft agency in Nigeria has been very active in the last one year as it continues to combat corruption.
Ibrahim Magu, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who presented the agency’s scorecard yesterday, revealed that they have secured 315 convictions and also seized 350 properties seized in one year.
Magu who spoke in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, during the ongoing Ninth Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa, further revealed that huge cash of different denominations were seized from politicians and their associates during the just-concluded general elections.
The EFCC boss who shared the agency's scorecard in the past one year at the conference in a presentation titled “Creative initiatives in the fight against corruption in Nigeria", said the commission recovered N1,590,039,312.54; N1,760,000,000.00 and N1,030,246,938.51 for AMCON, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, and FIRS respectively, from January to April, 2019.