President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Appoints Mr. Ola Olukoyede As Executive Chairman-EFCC
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Appoints Mr. Ola Olukoyede As Executive Chairman-EFCC
President Bola Tinubu confirms the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to service as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The resignation of the suspended Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa was followed by Mr Olukayode’s appointment.
The appointment is for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, subject to confirmation by the Senate.
Olukoyede’s assumption as the new EFCC boss comes nearly four months after Tinubu suspended the erstwhile anti-graft agency chief, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa.
Olukoyede faces the daunting task of rebranding the agency, especially the recent practices by the commission involving late-night raids on people’s homes and media trials, which were widely seen as primitive and outdated.
Some Nigerians have also suggested that the EFCC needed to transition to a more technology-driven approach.
This they said would see more high-profile individuals, particularly those with political influence, held accountable for their role in looting the nation’s resources.
The President of the Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN), Olu Omotayo, brings to ligth that Nigerians were hopeful the new EFCC boss will restore sanity and the confidence of the masses in the agency.
According to him, the poor should be able to walk up to the EFCC, make a complaint and it would be investigated.
He said, “Well, we expect him to take EFCC back, whether it can regain the lost glory. When you look back when the EFCC first started, when you make a complaint, they go on investigation.
Chinedu tasked the new EFCC boss with attracting foreign direct investment by clamping down on internet fraud and all forms of corruption.
This is even as he also warned against the attempt to politicise the appointment of Olukoyede as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, cautioning that the fight against corruption must be free of partisan politics.
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