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By Emmanuel Addeh
The federal government has said that it is set to reinvigorate the Inter Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) set up to ensure prompt implementation of findings and recommendations in industry audit reports of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).
Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Ahmed Idris, who chairs the committee, while speaking during a visit to NEITI secretariat, said he was at the agency’s headquarters to fashion out the modalities and the framework for the new panel.
“The Inter – Ministerial Task Team (IMTT) will now be resuscitated, it will come back to life and will continue to discharge the very objectives for which the government set up that committee to achieve. The result will begin to come very soon.
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The Nigeria Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are set to renew a joint partnership to stem corrupt activities and practices in Nigeria’s extractive sector.
Under the partnership, the EFCC’s extractive investigation fraud section will henceforth conduct joint operations on the findings and recommendations outlined in the NEITI reports.
A statement by the Head, Communications and Advocacy, NEITI, Mrs. Obiageli Onuorah, noted that the decision was the major outcome of a meeting between the Executive Secretary of NEITI, Dr. Ogbonnaya Orji and the Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa.