The Federal Government says it has uncovered 96 financiers of terrorism across the country, especially those backing Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP.
This was disclosed by Minister of Information and Culture, Lai
Mohammed, during a press conference on the administration’s fight
against corruption in Abuja on Thursday.
He said the administration through the Nigerian Financial Intelligence
Unit has identified 424 associates/supporters of the financiers as well as
123 companies and 33 Bureaux de Change, which aid and abet terrorism
financing.
The Minister said the feat was achieved between 2020 and 2021,
signifying the seriousness of the administration’s fight against
corruption.
He also praised the effort of the administration in identifying and
plugging loopholes of financial haemorrhage and gave the
administration a pass mark for the high recovery of slush funds and
convictions of looters of public funds by its anti-graft agencies in recent
years.
