The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, says the agency under his watch will be proactive and intelligence driven in its approach to fight corruption.
He said this at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja during the handover ceremony between him and the outgoing acting Chairman, Mohammed Umar Abba.
Bawa vowed that all stolen Nigeria’s wealth outside the country would be repatriated to the country, adding that the time had come for a paradigm shift in the agency and nation’s anti-corruption war.
He said: “We are going to digitalise our processes, and we are going to create a new full-pledged directorate of intelligence to enable us to gather intelligence so that we will be proactive in our fight against economic and financial crimes; and by so doing, we will also provide the government with necessary quality advice that will lead to good governance,” he said.
“There is a difference between fighting corruption and fighting corrupt people; and going forward, we are going to be proactive in our approach in the fight against economic and financial crimes.
“For our strategic partners across the shores of this country, we will continue to work together with you.
“But all of these, we will be doing it the way the EFCC is known to be doing its things. The provision of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, extant laws of the country have always been and will always be our guide.”
