Anticorruption: NDIC trains EFCC, ICPC operatives on capacity building

The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has concluded a capacity building programme for Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to further strengthen their capacity in fighting corruption in the country.
According to NDIC, the fifty-two day long training programme was in line with the existing collaboration between the corporation and the EFCC towards enhancing the capacity of the EFCC’s staff.
Among the fifty-eight (58) participants that attended the training programme, fifty-two (52) were drawn from EFCC and six (6) from Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC).
The training programme was structured into six (6) courses: Accounting for Non Accountants, Foreign Exchange Investigation, Tracing and Tracking of Suspicious Transactions, Financial and Banking Regulations, Auditing and Investigation Fundamentals as well as Financial Analysis.
Out of the forty eight (48) paper facilitators for the capacity building programme, thirty-seven (37) were from NDIC while the other eleven (11) were Subject Matter Experts from financial system Regulators, Operators and Practitioners.
The training programme which commence on August 22, 2016 and was concluded Wednesday, 30th November, 2016; was residential and held at the EFCC Academy, Karu, Abuja.