The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has formally asked the National Assembly for powers to retain a part of loots recovered by it.
The Spokesperson of the commission, Rasheedat Okoduwa, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.
Okoduwa said the request was one of the proposals made by the commission through a memorandum submitted to the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption.
The memorandum was submitted by the ICPC’s Acting Chairman, Abdullahi Bako.
It said retention of a percentage of the recovered loots would further strengthen the agency financially.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission through its Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, had made a similar request on October 19, 2016.
Magu told an anti-corruption conference in Abuja that the practice globally was for anti-graft agencies to retain certain percentage of the proceeds of crime recovered by them.
He said: “In some jurisdictions like the UK, proceeds of crime are further used to strengthen the agency.
“In EFCC, we have been struggling for years to build our headquarters and when I think of the billions of Naira we recover, I can see what would have happened if we are allowed to apply a percentage of this recovery into our operations.
“There is the need for an Act to make a provision for an application of the proceeds of crime into recapitalising the anti-graft agencies.”