The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Wednesday announced that it secured 3, 785 convictions across all its commands in 2022.
The EFCC in a statement made available to Daily Trust by its Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, announced that the figure, which emerged from a review of the commission’s performance in the outgone year, showed a 70.5 per cent improvement over its record for 2021(2220).
He said it also represents a 98.93 per cent success rate in prosecution given that the commission lost only 41 cases, representing 1.07 per cent within the period.
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The statement said, “As it was in 2021, the Lagos Command of the agency recorded the most convictions-765, closely followed by the Ibadan Command with 573 convictions and the Port Harcourt Zonal Command- 567, while the headquarters recorded 314 convictions.
“The conviction secured by the commission in 2022 is the highest by the EFCC since inception and sustains an upward trajectory which began shortly after the emergence of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.”
