The forum of the West African financial intelligence units has voted to relocate its headquarters from Cotonou in Benin Republic to Abuja, Nigeria.
The work of the forum is to coordinate intelligence sharing among state parties of ECOWAS and Chad Basin countries on money laundering, terrorism financing, financing of proliferation of weapons and all other criminal activities.
“It was agreed that the Nigerian Financial intelligence unit (NFIU) will host the Headquarters temporarily and gradually nurture it to an independent regional Headquarters,”Ahmed Dikko, NFIU chief media analyst, said in a statement on Thursday.
The statement added that in addition to intelligence exchange among FIUs, the forum will coordinate general information sharing among law enforcement, regulators, defence and national security agencies across the sub-region.
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