In a bid to ensure no individual found wanting in the ongoing war against corruption, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is said to leave no stone unturned in making such individuals to answer questions, as well as made to face the full wrath of the law of the country.
In order to achieve this, a source within the anti-graft commission informed the Nigerian Tribune on Monday that arrangements were being made to use the International Police (Interpol) to arrest and extradite some Nigerian fugitives, including some officials of the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan who had corrupt cases to answer.
According to the source, some individuals who served in one capacity or the other in the administration were being investigated by the commission, informing that some of them had left the country immediately after the expiration of the Jonathan-led administration.
The source added that the only way to bring these fugitives back to the country was to invite the Interpol to arrest them anywhere they could be in the world.
“We are making moves to contact the Interpol to get some Nigerians who have corrupt cases hanging on necks. This becomes imperative considering the fact that some of these individuals have run out of the country,” the source told the Nigerian Tribune.
The source, however, declared that the commission would not disclose how it would do its work in the media, saying that it would only inform Nigerians of its activities only when necessary.
Only last month, the Interpol wrote EFCC in response to the letter written to it last November by the commission’s acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, requesting for the extradition of Rasheed Maina, an ex-chairman of pension task force set up by the Federal Government.
The Interpol stated that it had issued a red alert for the arrest of Maina, who was believed to currently be in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
President Muhammadu Buhari had, during his state visit to UAE, signed an agreement with the Arab nation government on repatriation of stolen funds from Nigeria stocked in the country by some Nigerians, including government officials.
In another development, the commission, on Monday, disclaimed some recruitment advertisement purportedly for recruitment into the anti-corruption agency.
A statement made available to the Nigerian Tribune by EFCC’s head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, alerted the general public to the activities of some unscrupulous elements who had cashed in on the plan by the commission to recruit more personnel to defraud unsuspecting job seekers.
The statement stated that some unscrupulous online portals had, in recent times, featured advertisements supposedly from the EFCC, inviting applications for employment into the service of EFCC.
The commission, therefore, dissociated itself from the advertorials, declaring that, “for the avoidance of doubt, there is no recruitment currently going on in the EFCC.”
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