organised by the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Economic Crimes.
He said the financial challenges facing the activities
of the anti-graft agency was as a result of what he called non-remittance of
appropriated funds for the agency by the Federal Government over the months.
“I could recollect when the committee paid us an
oversight function visit.
“We did make our financial position known to the
committee that EFCC does not have N2 million in its accounts.
“We have been complaining that no money has been
released for us for operations,” the EFCC Secretary said.
Mr. Aremu further opposed the intention of the Bill in
making Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), currently a department in EFCC, an
independent Intelligence Unit on its own, insisting that “FIU, in most
climes of the world, is run as a secret operational centre at the background of
a major body like EFCC as it is presently in Nigeria”.
”FIU as intended by the Bill should not be expo-sed to
the public as a separate body on its own.
“It should be kept at the background as it is in most
climes of the world.”
However, the Central Bank of
Nigeria, National Intelligence Agency and National Agency for Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons, all rose in support of the proposed bill.
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