EFCC Stepup Anticorruption Drive in South South

 

Economic and financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has stepped up the anti-corruption drive in the South-South Zone.

The South South Zonal Head, EFCC, Mr. Ishaq Salihu, who made the assertion, said that the commission has secured twenty six convictions this year including a female senior lecturer who specializes in issuance of dud cheques and a fake lawyer who has defrauded unsuspecting clients of millions of naira.

Mr. Ishaq who said that some past governors from South -South zone and other politicians are under investigation, added that the commission has generated more than one point eighty billion naira including foreign currencies this year.

The EFCC Zonal head while assuring of the commissions resolve to fight corruption at any level, called on members of the public to freely report suspecting individuals who are living above their means.