Few days after alleging that a religious body in the country, is financing terrorism , the Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria, called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to name the terror financier religious group .
EFCC had through its Chairman, Ola Olukoyede in Abuja last week, alleged that some Religious Organizations were aiding and abetting corrupt practices including money laundering.
He specifically alleged that one of them for example , has kept in its Account, a sum of N7Billion looted funds – stating further that the Religious Body went to Court to request for court to prevent EFCC from verifying its Account.
Reacting to the allegation through a press statement issued on Monday, the National Coordinator of Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi, called on the anti-graft Agency to disclose publicly the Religious Body involved and intensify its efforts to retrieve the looted funds.
“Muslim Media Watch Group commend Mr. Olukoyede, the new EFCC Chairman for being courageous in making the disclosure but we implored him to go further by disclosing the identity of the Religious Body, aiding and abetting terrorism in Nigeria .
” It is hightime for EFCC to initiate amendments into some parts of the Nation’s Administration of Criminal Justice (ACJ) whereby not all economic crimes would be bailable because of dangers inherent in it”, he said .
The Media Group also called for abolition of Plea Bargaining in our legal system stating further that its provision in our laws have been encouraging economic crimes since offenders are made to refund only certain percentage of looted funds to get cases against them terminated.
