The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu charged Non-Governmental Organizations, NGOS, in the North-East, particularly Borno and Yobe states, to ensure that they comply with the rules guiding their registration and operation, particularly as it relates to registering with the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML.
Magu gave the charge through Ali Abdullahi, from the SCUML Unit of the EFCC Maiduguri Zonal Office, during a Hausa phone-in Radio programme, which aired on Radio Nigeria, Peace FM Maiduguri on Sunday, March 15, 2020.
“The compliance check was necessitated in order to evaluate and assess the internal operations of all the NGOs operating in the Northeast,” he said.
He further informed listeners that registration as Designated Non-Financial Institutions, DNFIs, with SCUML was free.
“Therefore, I am urging all businesses such as local and international NGOs, supermarkets, casinos, dealers in jewellery, hotels, audit firms, construction companies amongst others, to ensure that the comply,” he said.
He also used the opportunity to encourage members of the general public to embrace the whistle-blower policy of the federal government and endeavour to furnish the EFCC with any vital information that can help the Commission in effectively carrying out its mandate of ridding Nigeria of corruption.
