Barely
two weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari signed a Mutual Legal
Assistance agreement with the United Arab Emirate on the repatriation of
stolen funds and extradition of indicted officials, the Acting
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu,
today met with the UAE Ambassador to Nigeria, Mahmud Muhammad Al- Mahmud
in his office in Maitama, Abuja.
The
EFCC boss called for the strengthening of the existing relationship
between Nigeria and United Arab Emirate, UAE, with a view to effectively
tackle corruption within the African continent.
“The
fight against graft requires the collaborative support of all and
sundry, most especially the international community for it to be won”,
Magu said.
According
to the EFCC boss, the present administration in the country is poised
to recover the nation’s commonwealth looted and laundered in foreign
countries by corrupt elements. He said the Commission has intelligence
that the UAE is considered a safe haven by corrupt politically exposed
persons in Nigeria.
“I
have come to seek your support and cooperation just as we had in the
case of Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, James Ibori, among others
to get the mission accomplished”, Magu pleaded.
In
his remark, the UAE Ambassador, Al- Mahmud, pledged the support of his
country to Nigeria’s anti graft war saying, “No country can be an island
on its own without the support of others.”
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