The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit has disagreed with the 2021 Mutual Assessment Evaluation on Nigeria released by the Economic Community of West African States agency, the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering.
The NFIU said the report was outdated and based on “a 2019 country evaluation report which is literally stale and irrelevant today”.
The GIABA had in its report said that N18 billion was being laundered through the nation’s financial system annually by a terrorist group, the Islamic State West Africa Province.
The report also said that the nation’s law enforcement agencies lacked adequate insight into Boko Haram and ISWAP’s international reach, noting that the law enforcement agencies did not prioritise money laundering investigations.
But the NFIU Chief Media Analyst, Ahmed Dikko, in a statement on Monday, claimed Nigeria’s counter-terrorism financing efforts “have practically moved forward since then.”
He said, “It is to the knowledge of the international community, our populace and the formal media organisations that several arrests were made through the ongoing Operation Service Wide approved by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Defence Intelligence Agency. The exercise is continuing and far from over.
“In addition, all funding of violence from all sections of the country are being evidently analysed and reported to all relevant authorities
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