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Nigeria's anti-graft body granted US$ 40 million
03/09/2008

	Nigeria's anti-graft body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been granted US$ 40 million from international donor agencies towards its operations this year, chairman of the commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, said here Tuesday.

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The foreign governments and agencies included the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the European Union, Department for International Development (DFI D )/British High Commission, United Nations Office of Drug and Crime (UNODC), Canadian High Commission and the embassies of Germany, Norway and Switzerland

In a meeting with the representatives of the donor countries and agencies, Waziri noted that “the commission currently has a grant/credit portfolio of about US$ 40 million from six bilateral and multilateral donors, aside the non-monetary support such as sharing intelligence report, information sharing, capacity building and a host of others.”

The meeting, tagged First Donor Coordination Meeting, was organised to harmonise donor programmes.

Waziri acknowledged the support and interest of the donor agencies in the activities of the commission since inception.

She noted that the need for coordination was essential and timely in view of the commission's renewed and broadened scope in the fight against economic and financial crimes.

According to her, ‘The new vista in our activity comes with the need to build more strategic partnerships and more effective relations with our development partners as we seek to eradicate the scourge of economic and financial crimes in an effort to realise the vision of the President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's administration of making Nigeria one of the top 20 economies by 2020.”

She solicited for the continued support of the agencies in capacity building, publicity and advocacy, setting up of a database for Nigeria and National Forensic Laboratory and invited those who have not been involved in the fight against corruption to come on board.

Secretary of the commission, Emmanuel Akomaye, had told the meeting that "with the support EFCC has received, it has also been able to lend support to similar agencies in the sub-region in terms of training and capacity building, as some of them send their staff to EFCC to under-study its best practices.”