EFCC Officially Set To Demand Bankers’ Asset Declaration Forms June 1

 

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on Tuesday said the commission will from June 1 be demanding the asset declaration forms of bankers.

He said the decision was in line with the provisions of the Bank, Employees Declaration of Asset Act.

Bawa disclosed this in an interview with State House correspondents after a meeting he had with the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

The EFCC boss stated he was working difficult towards growing a brand new commission a good way to be exclusive within the manner it handles instances.

He said he would do his job to make certain that Nigeria is free of economic crimes.

He stated, “We understood that at the tail stop of every financial crime, it is for the criminal to have get right of entry to to the finances that she or he has illegitimately obtained and we're involved about the jobs of monetary establishments.

“We have mentioned, but we hope that each one financial institutions, specially the bankers, will claim their belongings as furnished for by the law, according with the Bank, Employees Declaration of Asset Act.

“The EFCC, come June 1, 2021, may be traumatic for this asset assertion paperwork, stuffed through the bankers in order that the line that we have drawn from June 1 is without a doubt complied with by bankers mainly.”