The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), secured a total of 3,785 convictions in Nigeria in 2022.
According to EFCC, the figure, which emerged from a review of the Commission’s performance in the outgone year, shows a 70.5 per cent improvement over its record for 2021(2220).
It also represents a 98.93 per cent success rate in prosecution given that the Commission lost only 41 cases, representing 1.07 per cent within the period.
As it was in 2021, the Lagos Command of the Agency recorded the most convictions-765, closely followed by the Ibadan Command with 573 convictions and the Port Harcourt Zonal Command- with 567, while the headquarters recorded 314 convictions.
The conviction secured by the Commission in 2022 is the highest by the EFCC Since its inception and sustains an upward trajectory which began shortly after the emergence of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
In 2015, EFCC recorded a total of 103 convictions. This shot to 195 convictions in 2016. The figure improved to 312 in 2018, and 1280 in 2019, dropped slightly to 976 convictions in 2020, the year of covid-19, and then moved up to 2220 in 2021.
The percentile improvement of the EFCC convictions in the seven years of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration from 103 to 3785, is over 3574.8 per cent.
