Reps suspend budget defence by EFCC, insist on transparency

From Terhemba Daka, Abuja

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may be heading for a collision with the House of House of Representatives as the lawmakers have accused the anti-fraud agency (EFCC) of lacking transparency and have suspended indefinitely the commission's appearance to defend its 2010 budget proposal.

Chairman of the House Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Rabe Nasir, in a letter to the EFCC Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, said the inability of the commission to submit to the National Assembly its quarterly reports has rendered the committee impotent in the discharge of its oversight functions.