Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

2019 Polls: TransparencIT Commends EFCC's Anti-Vote Buying Campaign, Election Monitoring Role

The Transparency Information Technology Initiative, TransparencIT, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for its role in checkmating vote-buying and other forms of corruption in the just concluded 2019 polls. In a press statement, signed by Frank Ogbu Ijege for TransparencIT, the EFCC was further commended for stepping into the electioneering processes, to ensure sanity of the process. He said: "It could be recalled that prior to the EFCC's interventions, vote buying has been a recurring problem in our elections where electorates are corruptly induced by political a…