EFCC warns against diversion of funds, relief materials in IDP camps

      

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu has expressed worry over complaints of corruption in Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camps, coming from international humanitarian organizations and other civil society organizations that are donating relief materials to distressed victims of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno State and other locations in the country.Magu warned against the activities of persons diverting funds and other resources donated by international humanitarian organisations for the displaced persons.
The anti-graft agency’s boss said anyone caught in the act of tampering with such benevolence will be treated as a criminal, stressing that the commission will ensure that there is transparency and accountability in the use of the resources meant for IDPs.

The warning was handed during a visit to the re-opened Zonal office of the commission in Maiduguri, Borno state capital.
The EFCC boss said, “We want to be sure that there is transparency, accountability and judicious use of the money allocated to Internally Displaced Persons in Maiduguri and elsewhere.

“What we are doing is gathering intelligence but the culprits behind the sufferings in the IDP camps will be invited sooner or later by the EFCC,” he said.
Magu further gave indication of plans to mobilize women to buy into the fight against corruption.

He added, “I will bring in civil societies and women groups in Borno state in the fight against corruption and we will equally organise a workshop for them similar to the one we did for children in Abuja, so as to educate them on the ills of corruption.”