DataPro Canvasses Political Will to Fight Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing

Nigeria’s leading compliance consulting firm, DataPro Limited has urged the incoming government administration to strengthen compliance with best practices in all sectors of the economy to drive development.

The Managing Director of of the data firm, Mr. Abimbola Adeseyoju made the remark at a session with the Association of Chief Compliance Officers of

Banks in Nigeria (ACCOBIN) at the weekend.

At the session, Adeseyoju emphasised the need to imbibe the principle and practice of observing world best practices in leadership through accountability, fairness and upholding national interest beyond personal interest in the course of its activities.

As the new administration takes on the leadership mantle tomorrow, the managing director observed that a political will was key to fight issues of money laundering, terrorism, terrorist financing, and the proliferation of other financial crimes,

He said: “Rewarding honesty and hard work will set the stage for the development that the country currently seeks and curb the rising brain drain. Anywhere you go all over the world, talented Nigerians who do not want to come home because the environment does not reward talents.

“Government needs to understand that their inaction or failure affects the totality of everybody in Nigeria and we believe that they can do better. A lot of appointments are going to take place so we can just make that a mantra that for every decision they are going to take, the interest of the country or the interest of the state will come first and that any action that they take in government, they should be able to defend it,” he said.