NSCDC partners NFIU to combat financial crimes

By Richard Akintade, Osogbo

In a bid to curb criminal activities, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), under the leadership of Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audu, is collaborating with the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) to jointly tackle financial crimes in the country.

This was made known on Friday at a training workshop organised by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), National Headquarters in collaboration with NFIU at Osun State Command headquarters, Oke Ayepe, Osogbo.

According to a legal officer and member of NFIU committee, Thomas Ogbebor, the unit is aimed at working closely with NSCDC in combating aforementioned crimes which need urgent and national interventions, and sanitize the financial system.

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While sensitizing the participants, representatives of NFIU, Mrs Railiana Hashdu and Miss Nafisat Sanni said the unit may consult with any person or organisation for relevant information relating to money laundering, terrorist financing or any other financial crime with a view to taking appropriate action.

Miss Nafisat Sanni highlighted the three traditional core functions the unit performs, these include monitoring & analysis, complaint & prevention informational cooperation and data exchange.

In his remarks, the representative of the State Commandant, NSCDC Osun State Command, Commandant Emmanuel Ocheja, Deputy Commandant of Corps (DCC) Padonu Augustine, lauded the initiative. He described it as a support to intelligence and Investigations.

DCC Padonu also praised the administrative acumen of the Commandant General, Dr. Audi, stressing that the collaboration is capable of contributing meaningfully to tackling financial crimes in the country.

Meanwhile, DSC Stephen Oyebode the Forensic Officer, Osun State Command has been appointed as the authorised officer to contact for financial intelligence information that needs collaboration between NSCDC and NFIU.

At the end of the training, a CRIMS (Crime Record Information Management System) Tablet, Emergency Information rRequest Form 010 which is expected to be filled online at the point of arrest and detention were presented to Osun State Command and was received on behalf of the State Commandant Emmanuel Ocheja by DCC Padonu Augustine.

The following departments and units were represented: Intelligence and Investigations, Department, Administrations Department, Anti-Fraud Unit, Legal Unit, Informatinon and Communication Technology (ICT) Unit and Public Research and Statistics (PRS).