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It was aimed at deepening cooperation and synergise efforts for greater impact on Nigeria\u2019s anti-corruption drive and discussing other areas of collaboration.<\/p>\n
Aliyu remarked that the visit to the EFCC was a show of commitment to the existing relationship between the two agencies.<\/p>\n
He expressed the commission\u2019s readiness, under his leadership, to provide the needed support and cooperation to eradicate corruption in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is important for us to work together, and we cannot do this without a good relationship. That is why I think I need to extend this hand of friendship to the EFCC, so that we can effectively partner in the fight against corruption in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am aware that there is a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the EFCC and ICPC, and I am willing and ready to partner whenever there is any issue of interest in the fight against corruption, \u201c he said.<\/p>\n
On his part, EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, subscribed to collaboration, saying the meeting also presented an opportunity for the review of the existing MoU between the two agencies.<\/p>\n
He said: We have areas of similar mandates. With the population of about 250 million people, there is so much in our hands. I can tell you that the enormity of the work demands that we work together.<\/p>\n
The EFCC boss also said the political will of President Bola Tinubu to fight corruption, as demonstrated in recent events, were enough boost for anti-corruption agencies to give their best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chairman\u00a0of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr Musa Aliyu, has taken an important step in strengthening the country\u2019s fight against corruption by initiating a high-level meeting with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The step, the commission noted, was to demonstrate ICPC\u2019s commitment to fighting corruption through enhanced inter-agency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-13835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13839,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13835\/revisions\/13839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}