Thread by @LaoluBeckley

A thread on EFCC's latest publication themed: Anti-graft War, Four Years of Impact.

According to the Acting Chairman of the Commission, Ibrahim Magu, "The efforts of the Nigerian government to trace, recover and return assets stolen from Nigeria, coupled with our increased...

advocacy to discourage safe havens have begun to yield results."

Between Jan - Dec 2015, total financial recovery stood at N33,180,830,789.62; $42,917,204.75; £147,100.00; €832,237.28; CFA86,500.00 and RMB3,588.00. In the same year, 60 real estate, 5 fuel stations...

29 landed properties, seven automobiles and two ocean-going vessels were forfeited.

In 2016, total recoveries were N170,276,862,879.93; $69,142,551.39; £44,785.00; €56,470; CAD$117,004.00; Dirham8,775.00; ¥120,141.50; Franc5,000.00; Rupees2,000.00 and Sr20,456.00. 85 bank accounts;5 ocean going vessels; 6 trucks, 3 trucks, 3 jets...

6 dredgers, 127 real estate, 28 lands, 1,500 metric tonnes of diesel and 3,035metric tones of Low Pour Fuel Oil, were forfeited.

In 2017, total cash recoveries beginning with the local currency stood at N473,065,195,977.50; $142,504,121.12; £294,851.82; €7,247,363.75; Dirham443,400.00 and Sr70,500.00. Properties forfeited were 106 automobiles, 244 motocycles, 22 lands...

2 farmlands, 159 real estate; 93,039,313 units of shares in 7 companies, 2 ocean-going vessels, 1 plaza, 2 hotels, 148 bank accounts and 2147 jewellery.

In 2018, total cash recoveries stood at N216,454,497,764.25; (Of this figure, N4,293,725,625.27 was fuel subsidy recovery); $67,290,174.49; £873,278.09; €298,055.00; Ry391,838.00 and Dirham10,135.00. Forfeited properties were 141 automobiles, 44 bank accounts...

4 petrol stations, 2 hotels, 37 lands, 100 real estate, 13 shops, 1 tugboat and 3 ocean-going vessels. Additional financial recoveries in 2018 were N6,316,041,396.21, recovered for FIRS and N541,975,500.00 for AMCON totalling N6,858,016,396.21.

Within the first 4 months of 2019, cash recoveries stood at N3,223,074,849.15 and additional N2,751,688,974.34 in draft; $310,718.00; £13,500.00; €700 and total of N5,566,392,675.05 in direct deposit. Properties recovered within the first 4 months period...

...include: one automobile, 1 farmland, 1 hotel, 11 real estate and 40,000 litres of diesel.

It was mentally exhausting typing this thread. To think that these amount of monies were stolen by a few people who had access to it is just ridiculous, and the fight against corruption hasn't even scratched the surface. God help us!