THE Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, yesterday met with the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Nigeria, Mahmud Muhammad Al- Mahmud, to seek the country’s support to track looted funds and repatriate corrupt persons.
He said the commission had intelligence that the UAE was considered a safe haven by Nigerian corrupt politicians.
The session came barely two weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari signed a Mutual Legal Assistance agreement with UAE on the repatriation of stolen funds and extradition of indicted officials.
A statement by EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity Mr. Wilson Uwujaren quoted Magu as saying: “The fight against graft requires the support of all, most especially the international community.
“I have come to seek your support and cooperation just as we had in the case of Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, James Ibori, among others, to get the mission accomplished.”
The EFCC chairman said the Federal Government was poised to recover the nation’s commonwealth looted and laundered in foreign countries.
He called for the strengthening of existing relationship between Nigeria and UAE with a view to tackle corruption in Africa.
On his part, Al-Mahmud pledged that his country would support Nigeria’s anti-graft war.
He said: “No country can be an island without the support of others.”
Nigeria and the UAE signed six agreements to enhance bilateral relations between them.
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