Sokoto Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has requested collaboration with the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) to ensure a corruption-free society.
This is contained in a statement by the public relations officer, NCS, Sokoto/Zamfara area command, Mr Abdullahi Tsafe issued to Newsmen in Sokoto yesterday.
Tsafe quoted the EFCC zonal director, Mr Nwanneka Nwokike, as making the remark when he visited the NCS area command headquarters in Sokoto.
The zonal director described the existing working relationship between the two organisations as cordial aimed at achieving the statutory mandate of the two agencies.
”EFCC shares intelligent gathering and other activities against corruption, therefore, the collaboration should be sustained for maximum benefit.
”My visit is to enable the anti-graft agency deliberate with the NCS on how to collectively reduce crimes within our respective jurisdiction,” the director said.
Responding, the Area Controller, Kamal Muhammad assured the readiness of NCS to sustain the synergy with EFCC which had been existing for years.
The controller explained that NCS’s mandates included revenue generation, trade facilitation and curbing smuggling.
He noted that being the gatekeepers of the nation’s borders, NCS collaborate with the EFCC in its fight against financial crimes and ensured numerous arrests.
Muhammad added that NCS had been in the forefront in supporting the EFCC in its fight against money laundering, financial frauds, embezzlement, human trafficking, piracy, drugs pushing and terrorism among others. (NAN)
