The Director/CEO of Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Hafsat Abubakar Bakari, has said the unit has mechanisms to monitor fund disbursement to local government areas following the Supreme court judgement affirming direct allocation to the council areas.
This was as she reaffirmed the NFIU’s commitment to combating financial crimes, emphasising its readiness to track and disrupt illicit financial flows.
Bakari stated this on Thursday in Abuja while delivering a goodwill message at the launch of the Accountability and Corruption Prevention Programme for Local Government (ACPPLG) put in place by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
“The NFIU is fully committed and involved, with all mechanisms in place to trace local government funds and support ICPC investigations and other agencies,” she stated.
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The event was attended by key government and private sector representatives, including the Attorney General of the Federation, who was represented as well as the leadership of the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, the Public Complaints Commission, PCC, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), the Center for Fiscal Transparency and Public Integrity, and some members of the National Assembly committee on anti-corruption and financial crimes.
