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Nigeria's president nominates new head of anti-graft agency

Published 16/02/2021, 17:21
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ABUJA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria's president nominated a
career employee to head the country's anti-graft agency after
the previous chief was ousted amid corruption allegations, his
office said in a press release on Tuesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari's nomination of Abdulrasheed
Bawa, a regional head of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), comes seven months after he suspended
previous chief Ibrahim Magu amid allegations that he had
diverted funds recovered by the agency into private pockets.
The EFCC is tasked with investigating and prosecuting graft
in Africa's largest oil exporter and its biggest economy, which
has grappled with endemic corruption for decades.
If confirmed by the Senate, Bawa will take the reigns of an
agency that is leading the investigation into alleged wrongdoing
by P&ID, a gas firm with a $10 billion arbitration award that
Nigeria is working to overturn, as well as a slew of other
high-profile cases. Earlier this month, the EFCC secured an arrest warrant to
compel ExxonMobil's XOM.N Nigeria chief to appear before its
investigators.
Nigerians blame corruption by the political elite for
widespread poverty in the country, which is in its second
recession in five years.

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