The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, on Wednesday begged the National Assembly to urgently pass a law to criminalise unexplained wealth.
He said Nigeria cannot win the anti-corruption war without legal backing to hold public officers accountable for assets far beyond their legitimate earnings.
Speaking during the National Conference on Public Accounts and Fiscal Governance organised by the Public Accounts Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives in Abuja, Olukoyede described the magnitude of public sector corruption as disturbing.
He also revealed that the EFCC had only just begun examining the books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, and what had emerged so far was mind-boggling, yet only a fraction of the rot.
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