EFCC Partners Civil Society On Subsidy Probe

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Saturday, February 18th, 2012

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has expressed its
readiness to partner with Civil Societies Organizations, CSOs in the on-
going petroleum subsidy probe and in the larger context of combating
economic and financial crimes in Nigeria.

Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde stated this
when a coalition of CSOs led by African Network for Environment and
Economic Justice, ANEEJ, visited him in his office.

Lamorde said the Commission is desirous of getting information from other
CSOs that would enable it achieve the mandate of looking at the subsidy
regime and its management in the past.

According to him, the Commission is waiting for the report of the House of
Representatives and the Senate.

“I am aware that the House has concluded its proceedings but we also know
that the Senate probe is still on-going. We are waiting for these two reports
and we would merge their reports with the KPMG report”. Lamorde
explained.

The EFCC Chairman also said the Commission has been able to get a lot of
materials from independent sources that are involved at different levels of the
administration of the subsidy regime.

These, he said, included shipping agencies, Tank farm operators, Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Department of
Petroleum Resources, DPR, Customs and the Nigerian Ports Authority,
NPA among others.

“We are just waiting for the two chambers to conclude their investigations
before we can move to the next level of our investigation, but as it were, we
have gone very far. We would welcome you at any stage to support us with
any information you have which will enrich the job we are doing.

“We have accepted the offer of collaboration which you initiated; we would
work out the terms of collaboration. We would also welcome any CSO which
you know in this area, we would also appeal to you to introduce us to any
other CSO you think is credible, but like you said, we partner with CSOs, we
don’t sponsor CSOs.” Lamorde stated.
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