The Forum of West African Financial Intelligence Units unanimously voted in Dakar, Senegal, to relocate its headquarters to Abuja, Nigeria, from its temporary site in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
The work of the forum is to coordinate intelligence sharing among state parties of Ecowas and members of the 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, NIgeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Chief media analyst, said in a statement in Abuja Thursday.
The statement said In addition to intelligence exchange among FIUs, the forum would coordinate general information sharing among law enforcement, regulators, defence and national security agencies across the sub/region.
