Through its orders, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was able to secure 3,785 convictions in 2022.
This figure reflects an improvement of 70.5% over the Commission's performance in 2021, according to a study of the Commission's work from the previous year, (2022).
According to the Commission's 98.93% success rate in prosecution, they only lost 41 cases (1.07% of the total) throughout that time, according to spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren, who spoke to reporters on Wednesday.
This is an excerpt from the statement: “As it was in 2021, the Lagos Command of the Agency recorded the most convictions (765), followed by the Ibadan Command (573), the Port Harcourt Zonal Command (567), and the headquarters (314).
“The conviction secured by the Commission in 2022 is the highest by the EFCC Since its inception and sustains an upward trajectory which began shortly after the emergence of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The Buhari administration was elected in 2015 on a tripod of promises- anti-corruption, economic recovery and security. In 2015, EFCC recorded a total of 103 convictions. This shot to 195 convictions in 2016, the first full year in office of the Buhari administration.
“The figure improved to 312 in 2018, 1280 in 2019, dropped slightly to 976 convictions in 2020, the year of covid-19, then moved up to 2220 in 2021.
“The percentile improvement of the EFCC convictions in the seven years of the Buhari administration from 103 to 3785, is over 3574.8%.”
Executive Chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa praised the performance of the Commission’s staff, saying that they had worked hard despite the difficulties of criminal prosecution.
He promised that the EFCC would maintain its efforts to incentivize all levels of personnel to work more efficiently through training and other means of capacity expansion.