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

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

The organisation stated public recognition of the achievements of anti-corruption companies should go hand in hand with transparency, equity and adherence to the rule of legislation.

GIW acknowledged 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 beneath the management of its chairman, Ola Olukoyede.

Addressing youths in the course of the march, GIW Country Representative, Comrade Eneji Mohammed, who spoke on behalf of the organisation’s Executive Director, Comrade Abraham Temitayo Adewoye, stated sustained progress within the struggle in opposition to 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 stated.

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 and 1,502 non-monetary property.
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 in addition by the transparency of the method and the safety of the rights of these concerned.
He stated sustainable outcomes required correctly documented achievements, clear accounting for recovered property, and investigations and prosecutions performed in accordance with the legislation.

Mohammed defined that GIW’s accountability strategy contains using lawful Freedom of Information requests, evaluations of revealed audit experiences and official paperwork, and requests for clarification from public companies over questioned expenditure, procurement choices and lacking or incomplete information.

He stated unresolved issues could possibly be addressed by way of 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 stated.

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

Through its New Nigeria Public Accountability Initiative (NNPAI), GIW stated 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 exchange legislation enforcement companies or prejudge allegations, however would promote public training, documentary proof and civic engagement in help of present 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 way of 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, counseled GIW for recognising the company’s efforts to deal with corruption in Nigeria.

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

According to him, the fee would proceed its efforts to make sure that Nigerians profit from the positive factors 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 stated.

He added that the EFCC chairman’s dedication was pushed by a need to construct a greater, stronger and extra affluent nation by way of the applying of anti-corruption legal guidelines.
Oyewale assured GIW that its message could be communicated to the EFCC chairman, administration and workers, 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 stated mirrored efforts to strengthen establishments and tackle corruption-related challenges.

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

The organisation maintained that lasting progress in opposition to corruption relied on institutional independence, transparency, evidence-based scrutiny, honest procedures and the equal utility of the legislation.