EFCC Accused Of Breach Of Service Wide Votes
By Andah John
The Senate has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of not complying with the process of getting funds from the Service-Wide Votes.
The anti-graft body is presenting a budget proposal of 17.2 billion Naira for 2017, representing an 8.5% decrease from that of 2016.
And appearing before the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crime to defend his agency’s 2017 budget, Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, told the lawmakers that the agency secured an additional N1.8b from the Service-Wide Votes.
But Senator Chukwuka Utazi, chairman of the committee, expressed displeasure at the EFCC for failing to inform lawmakers of the extra budgetary allocation.
