The group said the information also resulted in recovery of assets worth millions of naira wrongly appropriated by public officers.
The Whistleblowers Anti-corruption Reporting Network (WARN), a civil society organisation, says it has received 1,381 whistle blowing information and supplied those information to various anti-corruption agencies in the country.
Gabriel Onwe, Executive Director of WARN, disclosed this at the one-year anniversary of the organisation on Wednesday in Abuja.
The event tagged “Corruption Must Go; Blow the Whistle”, had in attendance representatives from various anti-corruption agencies, government institutions and others stakeholders.
Mr Onwe said that the whistle blowing information supplied to the anti-corruption agencies already had three persons convicted for their crimes.
He added that the information had also resulted in recovery of movable and immovable assets worth millions of Naira, including cash, houses, plots of land and vehicles, wrongly appropriated by public officers.
The executive director, who expressed his dissatisfaction over the dwindling moral values among Nigerians, said that WARN would continue to promote the national ethics and integrity policy of the federal government.
He recommended that the federal government for establishing a whistle blowing unit in all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), to strengthen its fight against corruption.
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