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Speaker 1: Nigeria Anti Corruption Police, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC

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says it has deployed its men and women across the

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eighteen local government areas of Endostates to monitor the activities

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of the Saturday governorship election in the state to ensure

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that the electoral process is free from vote buying. EFCAC,

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in a statement mean available on Fridays, said that vote

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buying is a financial crime and ourned members of the public,

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especially a Door State residents to desist from such art

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in the Saturday Guba Pool. Operatives of the Economic and

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Financial Crimes Commission EFCC have been deployed to all local

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government areas in Endosted to tackle voters inducements in the Saturday,

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September twenty first, twenty twenty four governorship elections. Commented on this,

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Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mister

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Olla O Locoedi, stated that the EFCAC was commne to

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the attendment of electoral integrity across the country by insulating

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voters from every form of financial inducement in exercising their franchise.

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Our operatives have been deployed to monitor the conduct of

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the elections. We are conrected to the attendment of electoral

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integrity by ensuring that voters cast their votes democratically without

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any form of financial inducement. Vote buying is a financial

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crime and the EFCC won’t allow it anywhere, he said.

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The Commission has always been involved in monitoring every electoral

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process across the country in line with its mandates of

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tackling all forms of economic and financial crimes. The statement reads,

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it will be recalled that in the last governorship election

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in the state in twenty twenty, EFSAC tasked bankers in

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the state to report any suspicious transactions few days to

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the election. In September twenty twenty, EFSAC, in a news

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report then stated that as the dose State governorship election

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draws near, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCAC men

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Ins Zonal Office has advised compliance officers of banks to

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report suspicious transactions to the Commission men In Zonal held

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of the EFCAC Motor Velo stated this during a meeting

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with compliance officers of various banks in Benin City and

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those state. Velo, who spoke to the bankers on behalf

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of the Acting Executive Chairman, Omar Alba Muhammad, charged the

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bankers to be allowed as politicians will want to use

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banks for illicit transactions before, during, and after the elections.

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Once the transaction is above the stipulated threshold, you have

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a duty to report so the alert, he said. He

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noted that bankers have a key role to play in

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the fight against corruption and economic and financial crimes, but

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bemong the fact that most of the fraud committed by

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fraudsters are ended by bankers. Sometimes bankers are comfortable because

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they do not always carry out due diligence and comprehensive

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Know your Customers KYC kre YC should be a continuous process,

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he said. He charged bankers to adhere strictly with banking rules,

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show temptation in the line of duty, and report any

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transaction that fills the simple rules of integrity, adhere to

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the rules of know your customers, and aquent yourself with

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the Money Laundering Act so you don’t fell in your duties.

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He said, sas one ready greendin, you need in a

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more digital way,