The World Bank is to support the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the areas of facilities and capacity building to further strengthen the anti-graft war in the country.
A statement by the commission said the bank’s Director of Governance Global Practice, Dr Ed Olowo-Okere, gave the indication when he visited the EFCC head office in Abuja.
The EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren signed the statement in Abuja on Friday.
Uwujaren quoted Olowo-Okere as saying that the assistance would be rendered under an operation of the World Bank called ‘Economic Governance Project’.
“It is supposed to be a follow-up project to the one approved by the World Bank in 2004.
“The Ministry of Finance has said that one of the agencies it would like us to work with and support under the project is EFCC”, Olowo-Okere said.
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