Abuja (Precise Post) – Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has described Lagos and Rivers States as the two headquarters of money laundering in Nigeria.
Magu, who disclosed this yesterday while briefing newsmen at the Commission’s zonal office in Port Harcourt, however, said Lagos State comes top on the list.
He stated that the anti-graft agrncy will leave nothing unturned to track and expose every form of criminal activities in the country.
The EFCC Acting Chairman noted that the reason for the rate of money laundering crime in Port Harcourt, Rivers State was because of the nature of its oil business terrain.
Magu said: “I think Rivers State is the next to Lagos in terms of crime, this is the headquarter of money laundering, because there is alot of oil money, bunker money here.
“I think you can rate Port Harcourt the second to maybe Lagos when you talk of people playing with sinking, diving, hiding, maybe because of the large space of oil deals.”
He stated that the judgement stopping the Commission from investigating serving governor’s of Rivers State will not stand.
The EFCC boss said: “Nothing is going to stop us, even the issue of the court order allegedly obtained by Dr Peter Odili and co to stop the EFCC from investigation and prosecution has been overtaken by event even though the matter is still at the supreme we on it.
“I am telling you that, that judgement cannot stand, it will only take sometime it cannot hold and we are going to conclude the investigation. There are so many investigation we are doing, we will take it before the court, let the court refuse to prosecute their case.
“I am sure the matter has suffered for about 13 years now. We are going to test it, the matter is in the supreme Court, we will follow it up.
“That decision that is pending in the supreme Court does not actually, cannot hold water again. There are subsequent judgement that has discarded it.
“Clearly, there are other judgement that came up and said nobody, not even the judge, not even the Judiciary, not even the court can stop us from investigating and prosecuting.”
Declaring achievements of the commission since 2019 till date, Magu disclosed that EFCC has gotten about three (3) conviction of Governors who are presently cooling off in the prison, adding that 1245 conviction was recorded last year.
He called for the corporation of all Nigerians in the fight against corruption in the country
