Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has recovered additional N70 million from alleged corrupt persons in Kwara State.
The commission disclosed that the latest recovery of looted fund was from its ongoing investigations into the spending of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (KWIRS).
The agency had in October this year handed over recovered sum of N112 million to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, in Ilorin, the state capital.
Head, Ilorin zonal office of EFCC, Isyakyu Sharu, made the disclosure while speaking as a guest on a national television monitored in Ilorin at the weekend.
He said: “We beam our searchlights on political office holders, civil servants and internet fraudsters. I can tell you that from our ongoing investigations into the spending of KWIRS, we have recovered additional N70 million.
“We came on the eve of 2019 general elections, we embarked on anti-vote buying; our role in the election made the exercise to be free, fair and credible. We discovered that about N1 billion was diverted by the some government officials, we investigated it and saved the state’s resources”
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On other achievements of the zone, Sharu revealed that “as it is today, we have 44 convictions in Ilorin zonal office, 42 of them was prosecuted on offences that border on internet fraud and related offences. We must join hands to fight the menace of internet fraud because it affects our image as a country.
“Parents, traditional rulers and religious leaders must play their role in the fight against corruption”
Sharu appealed to the people of Kwara, Kogi and Ekiti States to continue to partner with the EFCC by giving relevant information that could assist the commission in the discharge of its responsibilities.
