The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has said that the anti-graft agency intervened in this year’s general elections in Nigeria, in order to checkmate moneybags from influencing the emergence of corrupt leaders from the election.Magu spoke on Wednesday in Kampala, Uganda, during the ongoing 9th Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Africa.
Magu boasted: “For the first time in the history of electioneering in Nigeria, operatives of the Commission were deployed to monitor polling stations and collation centres to discourage vote buying.“The efforts culminated in some cash seizure and arrests. Some of those arrested have been prosecuted and convicted. The presence of EFCC operatives, according to some of the election monitors, was a major deterrence to dubious politicians and their associates.
Intelligence, he added, was also stepped up to track cash movements within and outside the banking sector.He said: “Strategic deterrence meetings were held with compliance officers and chief executives of deposit money banks and Bureaux De Change to prevail on them not to allow their institutions to be used as platforms for money laundering by politicians.
“In the last one year, the Commission almost doubled its conviction return with a record 315 convictions in 2018 and over N236.16 billion worth of assets recovered. Assets forfeited in the year include 350 properties, 141 automobiles, 100 real estate, three vessels, 37 plots of land, two hotels, one barge, gas petrol stations and 44 bank accounts.”
vanguardngr Foolish man start with Tinubu the Bullion van man.
vanguardngr officialEFCC then arrest bullion van house first then arrest Osinbajo trade Moni Then check how much they withdraw from Federal account illegally for election segalink adeyanjudeji
vanguardngr Lying liar
vanguardngr EFCC moved vote buying and money bags?!!! Then for goodness sake what are osibanjo and asiwaju bullion cash still doing out of jail?
vanguardngr Did they really moved against vote buying?, how come they did not see the bullion vans that ferried cash to Tinubu's house?, they are deceiving themselves, not Nigerians.
vanguardngr officialEFCC start from tinubu bullion van first,then Nigerians will know that the agency is transparent in war against vote-buying & moneybags
vanguardngr Efcc should keep Quiet! We all know the outcome of the election! Vote buying existed in the past election, Mainly you guys shouldn’t interfere in a full government election.
vanguardngr How come you officialEFCC did not see the bullion vans on bourdillon road? Just asking🚶♂️🚶♂️
vanguardngr Did same efcc did anything to tinubu, whom had stolen moneys in three bullion vans used in vote buying in Lagos state during just concluded presidential elections. The should hide them faces in shame for being partisan in their work. Shame on magu. Shame on efcc.
vanguardngr What was the result of the move?
vanguardngr So and who was arrested? the bullion van is excluded i guess...mtchwww
vanguardngr Tinubu's bullion vans excluded
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Dat means the rate of kwaraption now is high Magu should shut his smelling mouth. Is as a result of clueless animals in power. Corruption that they have been fighting since 2015 still date notin only members of OfficialPDPNig are getting nailed. Is Magu alluding to increased rate of corruption now since poverty and insecurity has increased under this 'anti corruption ' regime more than ever before? What is the outcome of the forensics on Ganduje videos? officialEFCC
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