UK Crime Agency support EFCC’s Forensic Lab with £500,000
The United Kingdom is in the process of building a £500,000 digital forensic laboratory for the Economic and Fiancial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja.
Representative of United Kingdom National Crime Agency,Paddy Kerr, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during a two-day capacity building workshop, organized by the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) for all the Zonal Heads of EFCC at Sheraton Hotels, Abuja.
He said that the Digital Forensic Laboratory of the EFCC will enable the agency to ethically and lawfully extract evidence from digital devices”.
According to him, the United Kingdom government had invested £500,000 in the digital forensic capability of the EFCC.
Speaking on the essence of the workshop in tackling corruption, economic and financial crimes in Nigeria, Kerr said that the training would avail the NCA the skill gaps the EFCC currently posses (if any), so that adequate training in filling those gaps would be provided in maintaining momentum of anti-corruption activities.
He said, “We want to look at the skill gaps that the EFCC currently possess if it does possess any, look at the training that we need to fill those gaps, that in itself will provide a catalyst with which to provide momentum of anti-corruption activities”.
In his remarks, Ben Ikani, Director of Forensics, EFCC, commended the UK government’s support for the Commission’s fight against corruption in Nigeria, describing the workshop as “significant”.
