FRI SEPT 05 2025-theGBJournal| The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Presidential Economic Advisory Council, Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council met on Thursday to evaluate the integrity of the investing members of the public preparatory to World Investment Summit to be hosted by Nigeria in November 2025.
The Director General of the Council, Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, led his management team on the courtesy visit to the EFCC’s Executive Chairman, Ola Olukoyede at the Commission’s corporate headquarters.
Nigeria will be hosting the World Investment Summit, in November 2025, the first of its kind in Africa and Presidential Economic Advisory members have been on a roadshow to drum up support for the Summit.
Prince Adeyemi disclosed that they met an array of investors who expressed eagerness to invest in Nigeria.
”But in spite of their willingness and readiness to work for Nigeria, we are being cautious, so as not to run into barbed wires,” he said.
Adeyemi noted that the investors they met are really keen to bring in their money to invest, but the Council does not have the intelligence to know whether the money they are bringing is to finance terrorism or any other negative thing.
”So, in order for us not to run into trouble in the course of doing our work, we deemed it fit to consult you. We need to partner with you, to collaborate to grow our economy. So, we are here to seek collaboration with your Commission so that we can together make Nigeria great again”, he said
Speaking on his resolve to spare no rogue investor in the anti-corruption fight, The EFCC boss Olukoyede said that, ”as many as we know set up their businesses to destroy the economy, we will bring them down.
We don’t have any apology for that. Bringing them down will also help us build the economy because you can’t set up your business to destroy the economy. So, we try to strike a balance and to see how we can interplay all the forces.
Let us all ensure that we do the right things. If somebody sets out to scam the system, the long arm of the law will catch up with such a person. Let us always be conscious of that. On our part, we are ready to do the right things and to play by the rules.”
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