The Executive Secretary, Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, Waziri Adio, has expressed the readiness of his agency to collaborate with the EFCC, in tackling corruption in the Nigeria by reporting serious infractions that violate the country’s constitution.
Adio made this disclosure on Friday, June 17, 2016 during a courtesy visit to the acting Chairman EFCC, Ibrahim Magu at the Commission’s Head Office, Abuja.
According to him, “we have an Act that criminalise certain behaviours; if people do not corporate with us, if people do not give us information on time, they are liable to be prosecuted, fined and jailed.
“But, we have existed for 12 to 13 years and nobody has ever been tried under our Act and that is not to say some infractions would not have occurred.”
Adio stated that the major issue is the lack of power to prosecute, adding that NEITI as an organization, only carries out audit.
In his remarks, the EFCC boss, Magu, expressed the readiness of the abti-graft agency to work with NEITI.
