The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has said that the fight against corruption will be vigorous in this year, 2020.
The anti-graft czar made this known on Tuesday, January 21, 2020, during his visit to the Ilorin Zonal office of the Commission in a bid to further ensure efficiency in the system.
Magu noted that no high profile individual involved in corrupt practices will be shielded from prosecution, stressing that “all of them will be arraigned as soon as investigations are concluded. There is going to be a vigorous fight against corruption this year,” he said.
Magu on Monday at Thisday award ceremony also decried the refusal of the United Kingdom (UK), to extradite former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke, to face trial for alleged money laundering in Nigeria.
Magu while receiving the “Institution of the Decade” award on behalf of the EFCC at the awards ceremony organised by Thisday Newspaper to mark its 25th anniversary at the Eko Hotels and Suits, Victoria Island, Lagos, disclosed that the Commission had sufficient evidence to prosecute Allison-Madueke for the alleged financial malfeasance she committed while in office.
The looted funds, traced to Allison-Madueke and others, he noted, could be used to keep the wheel of the nation’s economy rolling if recovered.
“We don’t want to keep chasing everybody as a suspect. We want everybody who has stolen from the commonwealth to bring it back to Nigeria, so as to use the monies to provide the needed infrastructure,” he stated, disclosing that the Commission would build more detention facilities and open additional zonal offices so as to bring the anti-corruption fight, nearer home to the people.