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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC , has called on financial institutions across the country to
strengthen their collaboration with the Commission towards ridding the nation
of economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption.
This charge was given on Tuesday, April 29, 2025
in Port Harcourt, Rivers State by the Acting Zonal Director of EFCC, Assistant
Commander of the EFCC, ACE1 Adebayo Adeniyi while addressing bank compliance
officers. He admonished them to always carry out their duties of
conducting Customer Due Diligence and Know your Customers in order to
strengthen the fight against corruption.
He also charged them to take their job
seriously, ensure good collaboration with the Commission, good ethical conduct,
honesty and accountability while dealing with their customers. He tasked them
to always remind their customers that those who fail to comply with due
diligence and KYC principles would be sanctioned.
"It is important to remind banks of their
critical roles as major stakeholders in the fight against corruption and that
there is a need for the Commission and the banks to work together", he
said. He pointed out that issues of identifying bank customers
and for banks to update records of their customers are very important to
facilitate investigation processes.
He specifically cautioned account officers
against encouraging internet fraudsters to commit fraud through multiple
accounts creation or alerting their customers that they are under
investigation by the EFCC or that their accounts have been flagged. “In as much
as you have to protect the bank, don't do so at the detriment of the nation, do
not protect the bank and destroy the image of your own family and that of the
society", he said.
Responding, one of the compliance
officers, Edward Keto, appreciated the efforts of the Commission
adding that “ it is a privilege to have this kind of meeting with the
Commission and it will help in dealing professionally with our customers”.
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