Your Excellencies, investment does not follow slogans. It follows certainty — the certainty that contracts will be honoured, that disputes will be decided on their merits, and that no official’s signature is for sale.
There can be no greater incentive to investors than assurance of due process and the rule of law. Every conviction we secure against a fraudster is a letter of comfort to every honest business considering our shores.
In the last two years the EFCC has returned hundreds of billions of naira to victims and to the treasury. But the deeper work is preventive: fraud-risk assessments embedded in public procurement, compliance frameworks agreed with the banking sector, and a generation of young Nigerians recruited into integrity rather than lost to cybercrime.
Africa is not asking the world for indulgence. We are offering the world a partnership — and we are doing the hard work of making that partnership safe.