We have secured 14 convictions in South-South – EFCC


Lorine Emenike

The South-South Zonal Director of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that the commission has secured fourteen convictions in their fight against corruption within a few months.

Bawa who is the Deputy Chief Detective Superintendent said the breakthrough was based on the level of investigation and professionalism put at work by officials of the commission.

Bawa who disclosed these when the Federal Commissioner, Public Complaints Commission, Marshall Israel led officials of his commission on a working visit to the EFCC office in Port Harcourt said the commission depends on their investigation in the court.

The South-South Zonal Director of EFCC while addressing the meeting, said the commission is faced with the regular issue of oil bunkering, threatening that the commission under his watch will not rest in fighting it just as he appealed to PCC to assist in sensitizing the public against oil bunkering in the state.

Bawa noted that the prevailing impunity been experienced across the nation is sustained because of lack of enforcement of the law and assured to continue collaborating with Public Complaints Commission in the fight against corruption, administrative injustice and other related economic crime.

Earlier, the Federal Commissioner, Public Complaints Commission in Rivers State, Marshall Israel who commended the efforts of EFCC in the fight against corruption, appealed for continuous collaboration in the interest of ridding off the society of corruption, administrative injustice and other related economic crime.

TPCN correspondent reports that the South-South Zonal Director of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa handed over a booklet containing the new whistleblowing strategy to the federal commissioner, Public Complaints Commission, Marshall Israel.

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