EFCC sets up office in Benin, Edo state

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on in Benin City commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for bringing integrity into the fight against corruption in the country.

“You are people of integrity. We have tracked your activities before you came to the State”, he said.

The governor stated this when he received officers of the Commission who paid him a courtesy visit in his office.

He expressed delight over the setting up of an EFCC Office in the State adding that the coming of the Commission would be of much value to the state. “Corruption has almost become an acceptable norm that even primary school pupils now cheat in exams.”

The governor said the state was willing to partner with the Commission in fighting corruption and other forms of economic and financial crimes in the state.

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“We believe that you can be a major resource for us by running courses and programmes in schools and ministries to awaken their consciousness”, he said.

He bemoaned the rate of corruption and waste in the country saying, “Even with the recession we have more than enough to take us far beyond where we are now but because of those corrupt tendencies we are unnecessarily stunted.”