How fire destroyed EFCC’s Port Harcourt facility

Fire has gutted the exhibit dump of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission located at Iriebi in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, TopNaija reports.

Wilson Uwujaren, an EFCC’s spokesman revealed this in a statement on Tuesday.

The inferno affected most of the trucks parked in the premises.

The statement read, “There was a fire incident at the exhibit dump of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, located at Iriebi, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, March 14, 2022.

“The incident which occurred in the early hours of the day, affected most of the trucks parked in the facility before the fire was put out by men of the Federal Fire Service.

“Secretary to the Commission, Dr. George Ekpungu, who was at the scene of the incident on Tuesday March 15, assured that investigation had commenced determining the cause of the inferno, while measures will be put in place to safeguard all exhibit dumps across the country.”

The EFCC was established in 2003, partially in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), which named Nigeria as one of 23 countries non-cooperative in the international community’s efforts to fight money laundering.[1] The agency has its head office in Abuja, Nigeria.