The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede has stated that whistleblowers who offer information on assets kept abroad in any part of the world by corrupt Nigerians stand to get a reward of between 2.5 and 5% of the recovered loot.
He therefore called on whistleblowers across the world to offer useful and actionable intelligence to the Commission on monetary and non-monetary assets stashed abroad by corrupt Nigerians.
He made this call on Wednesday while delivering a lecture at the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime in the United Kingdom.
According to him, any whistleblower that is privy to where Nigerian assets are kept abroad could come forward to assist the country in recovering them. This initiative, he said, would come with juicy rewards.
“I welcome all of you to the world of whistleblowing. If any one of you is privy to where Nigerian assets are stolen or taken to anywhere in the world, we have an incentive for you; between 2.5% and 5%, it’s going to go back to you upon recovery. That is an incentive we have put in place to encourage people to come forward to give information about stolen assets.
You never tell if you give any information here, some of you may leave this place, multi-millionaire in your lifetime”, he said.
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