The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced that it convicted over 500 people of cybercrime in Nigeria in the last five years, News About Nigeria reports.
The Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday while receiving a delegation from the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) that paid him a courtesy visit at the corporate headquarters of the Commission.
He noted that the Commission is one of the prominent, specialised anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria with the mandate to investigate cybercrime, adding that it has not failed in its mission.
Olukoyede added that the EFCC has collaborated with FBI, NCA and other prominent law enforcement agencies in the world in the area of combating cybercrime.
“As a matter of fact, a consultant was saying that cybercrime has assumed the third largest GDP in the world. It is a sort of crime that we should not take lightly and comes from the readiness from these countries and law enforcement agencies to collaborate, to share information in such a way that each country will take responsibility for what they are supposed to take responsibility for.
“EFCC, apart from the Police , is one of the prominent, specialised anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria that has the mandate to investigate cybercrime and we have been doing that. In the last few months, we have secured over five hundred convictions in cybercrimes and over the years we have had cause to collaborate with FBI, NCA and other prominent law enforcement agencies in the world in the area of combating cybercrime,” he said.
He further pointed out that the EFCC’s operations against cyber crimes are focused, relentless and fruitful, and therefore urged heads of the world to give the Commission access to information.
