Why EFCC should not be scrapped – Fintiri
The Governor of Adamawa State, Ahmadu Fintiri, has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission should not be scrapped but rather strengthened for better efficiency.
This came in response to a suit filed at the Supreme Court by 16 state governors challenging the legality of the laws establishing the commission.
In an interview on Channels TV’s Hard Copy programme on Friday, Fintiri stated, “For me, it is not the right time to abolish the EFCC, whether it was established rightly or wrongly. We need to make it work better. We need to remove the politics that sometimes leads to claims of witch-hunting.”
He also criticised the practice of the federal government taking custody of funds seized from state fund embezzlement, calling it “a wrong practice.”
