President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Ola
Olukoyede as the executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) pending confirmation by the senate.
Ajuri Ngelale, special adviser to the president on media and
publicity, issued a statement on the appointment on Thursday.
“Ola Olukoyede is a lawyer with over twenty-two (22) years
of experience as a regulatory compliance consultant and specialist in fraud
management and corporate intelligence,” the statement reads.
“He has extensive experience in the operations of the EFCC,
having previously served as chief of staff to the executive chairman
(2016-2018) and secretary to the commission (2018-2023).
“As such, he fulfills
the statutory requirement for appointment as chairman of the EFCC.”
Ngelale added that the appointment “follows the resignation
of the suspended EFCC chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa”.
“Furthermore, President Bola Tinubu has approved the
appointment of Muhammad Hassan Hammajoda to serve as the secretary of the EFCC
for a renewable term of five years in the first instance, pending senate
confirmation,” the statement reads.
“Hammajoda is a
public administrator with extensive experience in public finance management who
holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of
Maiduguri and a Masters in Business Administration from the same university.
“He began his career as a lecturer at the Federal
Polytechnic, Mubi. From there, he went into banking, including successful
stints at the defunct Allied Bank and Standard Trust Bank.
“President Bola Tinubu tasks the new leadership of the EFCC
to justify the confidence given to them in this important national assignment
as a newly invigorated war on corruption undertaken through a reformed
institutional architecture in the anti-corruption sector remains a central
pillar of the President’s Renewed Hope agenda.”
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