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EFCC to partner PCC in the fight against corruption

The South South Zonal Director of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa has disclosed that the commission have secure fourteen conviction of persons in their fight against corruption within 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 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 their investigation on the court. The South South Zonal Director of EFCC while addressing at the meeting, said the commission is faced with regular issue of oil bunkery, threatening that the commission under his watch will not rest in fighting it just as he appeal with the PCC to assist in sensitizing the public against oil bunkery in the state. Bawa who noted that the prevailing impunity been experience across the nation is sustained because of lack of enforcement of the law, assured to continued 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 for the interest of ridding off the society of corruption, administrative injustice and other related economic crime. Our Correspondent reports that the South South Zonal Director of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa handed over a booklet containing the new whistle bowing strategy to the federal commissioner, Public Complaints Commission, Marshall Israel.

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