The Director, Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, Francis Usani, has charged all regulatory and law enforcement agencies in the country to work together towards achieving the set objective of the National Risks Assessment (NRA) project initiated in 2013.
He also urged them to
understand the attendant challenges, while making concerted efforts to surmount
them within the 18-months time line.
Usani stated this on Tuesday, August
11, 2015 during a one-day sensitization workshop for select regulatory and law
enforcement agencies in Nigeria at the Chelsea Hotel, Abuja.
In his welcome
address, he said the workshop was organized to afford the various regulatory
agencies the opportunity to assess the current parameters used for the conduct
of Mutual Evaluation Exercise, UME.
According to him,
there is a need to sensitize the various regulatory agencies in the NRA project
on data collection and research methodologies, so as to distinguish between
relevant and irrelevant data.
He said: "This
workshop could not be timelier than now, especially when the NRA project is
geared towards the second phase, that is, data collection and self- evaluation
stage. There is, therefore, the need to remind ourselves of our expectations;
and to this end, we must take an overview of the Nigerian financial system
within the perspective of the 2008 Mutual Evaluation Report, MER, of Nigeria
and the implication of the report on the country's AML/CFT regime."
The event, which
featured presentation of papers by several participants, was attended by some
regulatory and law enforcement bodies, including the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency, NDLEA; the State Security Service, SSS; the Nigeria
Customs; the Security and Exchange Commission, SEC; the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC; the Special Control Unit Against Money Laundering,
SCUML and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, among others.
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