Chairman, ICPC, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN), made the revelation on Tuesday in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
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The gathering is a one-day hybrid sensitization workshop on the published “Guidelines for Private Sector Response to IFF Vulnerabilities in Nigeria”, scheduled to hold on 17th August, 2023, at the Ultra-modern Auditorium of the ICPC in Abuja.
The ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said the call was necessary for the world rise up against illegality and financial crimes, including money laundering and hidden ill-gotten wealth.
Prof. Owasanoye made the disclosure in his welcome remark at a physical and virtual zoom meeting to review the report on IFFs in relation to tax.
The Executive Chairman of FIRS, Muhammad Nami, stated this in Abuja on Wednesday at virtual meeting on the review of “Report on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) in Relation to Tax.”
Owasanoye said this when a delegation of the News Agency of Nigeria led by its Managing Director, Buki Ponle, visited the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is partnering Nigerian Bureau of Statistics to release new data on corruption and Illicit Financial Flows in and out of Nigeria.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, says Illicit Financial Flows are bane of Nigeria’s development.
The Federal Government has urged members of the South-South Cooperation to take concrete steps to tackle illicit financial flows as a strategy to address poverty and accelerate growth among the developing nations.
Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja, said Buhari made the call at the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum, held on the sidelines of the Centenary of Armistice Day.
The Federal Inland Revenue Services said it recovered about N3.63 billion by curbing Illicit Financial Flows between January 2017 and August 2018 in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in New York called on Africans in the Diaspora to come up with suggestions on how to curtail the menace of corruption on the African continent.
The appeals of the Government for Nigerians to declare in the interest of the nation have now received huge backing from the very type of threat that will make any sensible Nigerian sit up and pay attention
The resolution built on an earlier one sponsored by Nigeria and similarly adopted by consensus at the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly on December 21, 2016.