EFCC sets up taskforce against Dollarization, Naira mutilation

Mkpoikana Udoma

Port Harcourt — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has set up a Special Task Force in all its Zonal Commands for the enforcement of extant laws against mutilation of Naira notes and dollarization of the nation’s economy.

The Task Force, inaugurated by the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Ola Olukoyede, was raised to protect the economy from abuses, leakages and distortions exposing it to instability and disruption.

EFCC Head, Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, said already, the Commission has made some arrests of perpetrators of issuance of invoices in dollars and mutilation of the Naira in Lagos and Port Harcourt.

According to him, proprietors of private universities and other institutions of higher learning charging fees in dollars have been invited by the Commission.

The anti-graft Commission further assured of its committed to the enforcement of all laws in place for the reflation and stimulation of the nation’s economy.