GIW Supports Anti-graft War, Urges Continued Scrutiny, Respect For Rights

Global Integrity Watch (GIW), a world civil society organisation, has burdened the necessity for continued scrutiny, accountability and respect for the rights of people in Nigeria’s anti-corruption efforts.

The organisation mentioned public recognition of the achievements of anti-corruption businesses should go hand in hand with transparency, equity and adherence to the rule of regulation.

GIW said this throughout an Integrity March to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the place it acknowledged the fee’s reported achievements in convictions and asset recoveries below the management of its chairman, Ola Olukoyede.

Addressing youths throughout the march, GIW Country Representative, Comrade Eneji Mohammed, who spoke on behalf of the organisation’s Executive Director, Comrade Abraham Temitayo Adewoye, mentioned sustained progress within the struggle towards corruption required professionalism, clear accounting and respect for due course of.

“GIW recognises the anti-corruption efforts reported under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration and the EFCC leadership. Public recognition should go hand in hand with continued scrutiny, accountability and respect for the rights of all persons,” Mohammed mentioned.

According to the organisation, the EFCC reported securing 7,503 convictions and recovering roughly ₦566.32 billion between October 2023 and September 2025, alongside foreign currency echange and 1,502 non-monetary belongings.
GIW additionally cited a stewardship briefing revealed by the EFCC chairman’s workplace in August 2026, which reportedly put the fee’s convictions at 10,872 between October 2023 and July 2026.

The briefing additional reported recoveries of roughly ₦1.234 trillion and $684.48 million between October 2023 and June 2026.
While acknowledging the figures, Mohammed emphasised that the effectiveness of anti-corruption efforts shouldn’t be measured by convictions and asset recoveries alone, but additionally by the transparency of the method and the safety of the rights of these concerned.
He mentioned sustainable outcomes required correctly documented achievements, clear accounting for recovered belongings, and investigations and prosecutions carried out in accordance with the regulation.

Mohammed defined that GIW’s accountability method consists of the usage of lawful Freedom of Information requests, opinions of revealed audit studies and official paperwork, and requests for clarification from public businesses over questioned expenditure, procurement choices and lacking or incomplete information.

He mentioned unresolved issues may very well be addressed by public advocacy, media engagement or referrals to competent authorities, the place acceptable.
“Our work is not a personal attack on any public official or institution. It is a public-interest effort to strengthen governance, improve transparency and support a Nigeria in which public funds are managed responsibly,” he mentioned.

The GIW consultant added that audit observations must be handled as points requiring clarification slightly than computerized proof of wrongdoing.
He reaffirmed the organisation’s dedication to evidence-based reporting, the presumption of innocence, truthful procedures and the best of establishments and people to reply to allegations.

Through its New Nigeria Public Accountability Initiative (NNPAI), GIW mentioned it intends to advertise transparency, encourage accountable reporting of suspected wrongdoing and strengthen accountability requirements throughout public establishments.

The organisation clarified that the initiative wouldn’t substitute regulation enforcement businesses or prejudge allegations, however would promote public schooling, documentary proof and civic engagement in help of current accountability mechanisms.

GIW additionally inspired whistleblowers and members of the general public with credible details about suspected corruption to protect related information and report their issues by acceptable lawful channels.

It urged public establishments to keep up dependable monetary information, adjust to disclosure necessities, reply to lawful Freedom of Information requests and clarify corrective measures taken when irregularities are recognized.

Responding, EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede, represented by the fee’s spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, recommended GIW for recognising the company’s efforts to sort out corruption in Nigeria.

Oyewale urged stakeholders throughout the nation to acknowledge the fee’s work and help collective efforts to fight corruption.
He mentioned Olukoyede remained dedicated to constructing a stronger and extra affluent Nigeria by the enforcement of anti-corruption legal guidelines.

According to him, the fee would proceed its efforts to make sure that Nigerians profit from the beneficial properties of the anti-corruption marketing campaign.

“We want stakeholders across the country to come forward in the same way to appreciate what the commission is doing,” Oyewale mentioned.

He added that the EFCC chairman’s dedication was pushed by a need to construct a greater, stronger and extra affluent nation by the applying of anti-corruption legal guidelines.
Oyewale assured GIW that its message can be communicated to the EFCC chairman, administration and employees, including that the fee would maintain its anti-corruption efforts.

He additionally cited the Nigerian Education Loan Fund and the Credit Corporation of Nigeria as examples of initiatives he mentioned mirrored efforts to strengthen establishments and handle corruption-related challenges.

GIW reiterated that defending public assets and making certain accountability remained a collective accountability, stressing that public funds belonged to Nigerians and have to be managed within the public curiosity.

The organisation maintained that lasting progress towards corruption trusted institutional independence, transparency, evidence-based scrutiny, truthful procedures and the equal software of the regulation.