{"id":18386,"date":"2019-05-31T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18386"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T15:33:12","slug":"magu-calls-for-inter-agency-collaboration-to-combat-corruption-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18386","title":{"rendered":"Magu Calls for Inter-Agency Collaboration to Combat Corruption, Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<strong>Tony Orilade<\/strong>, Ag. Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC<br \/>\nThe Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has called for the strengthening of inter-agency collaboration, as an essential ingredient needed in effectively combating corruption and terrorist financing in the country.<br \/>\nHe made the call at the Inter-Agency Cooperation and Coordination Seminar, which held at the Army War College, Abuja, on Thursday, May 30, 2019, as part of the eight-month study programme for 66 senior officers of the Nigerian Army.<br \/>\n&#8220;Synergy among agencies will no doubt go a long way in ensuring that our country is safe, and there is need for more efforts in the investigation of where funds are gotten from,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nMagu, who was represented by Chidi Chukwuka Boniface, a Director with the EFCC, further called on other agencies and bodies such as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to curb inflow of foreign currency.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Central Bank of Nigeria and other relevant agencies should be able to supervise these inflows and should find ways to track monies used in these insurgency,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nHe further stressed the need for all agencies in the country, to salvage the country from the grips of corruption, stressing that, &#8220;there is the need to fight corruption with total commitment and dedication as this is the only viable alternative available to us to move from where we are to a stable society&#8221;.<br \/>\nDirector General, Services, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, James Akujobi, said inter-gency collaboration was essential to enhance joint efforts and cooperation among independent agencies with shared responsibilities and overlapping jurisdictions.<br \/>\n&#8220;Collaboration builds synergy and creates oneness to meet the common goals,&#8221; Akujobi said, noting that inter-agency collaboration also helps to address capability shortfalls.<br \/>\nThe Commandant of the Army War College, Major General Charles Ofoche commended participants for a robust and rewarding session, he said, &#8220;we all are instruments of the state, regardless of the colour of the uniforms we wear.&#8221;<br \/>\nOther agencies represented were: Nigerian Police Force, Nigerian Immigration Service, Department of States Service, Nigerian Customs Service, Nigerian Prison Service, Federal Road Safety Corps, and Nigerian Civil Defense Corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By\u00a0Tony Orilade, Ag. Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has called for the strengthening of inter-agency collaboration, as an essential ingredient needed in effectively combating corruption and terrorist financing in the country. He made the call at the Inter-Agency Cooperation and Coordination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}