The Chairman of the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde on Monday said that N14 billion being taken outside the country in 2012 was intercepted at the country’s airports.

Speaking at the 2012 International Anti-Corruption Day celebration organized by the Inter – Agency Task Team, IATT on Monday, the Chairman said the amount represented physical cash being taken out of the country.

He disclosed that between January and August 2012, the operations of a Special Task Team which is a joint patrol of the airport by the EFCC operatives and Nigerian Customs officers which commenced in September 2012, had yielded the arrest of illegal cash couriers.

Lamorde linked the illegal transfer and corruption to greed, callousness and meanness of the people involved saying, “corruption is one of the reasons Nigeria has not been able to make progress, socially, politically and economically and we have all agreed that corruption cannot be sustained in Nigeria, all of us must come together to fight corruption.”

The EFCC chairman, who said the funding of the anti-corruption agencies and their operating legislations have to be reviewed, explained that between January and December 2012, the Commission had filed about 353 cases at various courts across the country and had recorded about 53 convictions so far.
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