As reactions continue to trail
the recent appointment of Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede as the new chairman of
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has appealed
to his traducers to sheath their swords.
Okechukwu, who is a foundation
member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, described the appointment as a
game changer for anti-graft-war crusade, going by Olukoyede’s antecedents.
He said this in a statement made
available on Sunday.
He maintained that it was not
unusual for controversy to erupt after the appointment to an important and
strategic office like the chairman of EFCC, without regards to whether the
appointment conforms with extant laws.
“One has carefully taken a
cursory analysis of the raging debate and came to the inevitable conclusion
that Ola Olukoyede’s traducers had forgotten the famous and ageless maxim of
the foremost physician of all time Albert Einstein – ‘insanity is doing the
same thing over and over again and expecting different results'”, Okechukwu
opined.
He said, “the truism is that
Olukoyede’s appointment is remedy as EFCC was formed to provide alternative for
higher performance in waging the Herculean anti-graft war crusade.
“Therefore, his appointment from
fraud angle of the noble legal profession is an appropriate alternative for
reforms. Doing otherwise is akin to doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.”
On the legalism of his
qualification, Okechukwu, who is also the Director General of Voice of Nigeria,
said that he is in league with the preponderance view of senior counsels that
Olukoyede’s cognate experience is unassailable having headed the administration
of the EFCC and having devoted the last two decades in the fraud tricky
profession.
“The intendment of the law is
that emphasis should be laid on cognate experience. The reforms contemplated by
Renewed Agenda of President Tinubu can only be achieved under an informed
insider with requisite legal tools not a learner. That, to me, is the essential
thrust of Olukoyede’s appointment,” Okechukwu added.
He said that he expects better
results from Olukoyede and urged him to always diligently finish investigations
to avoid media trial.
He further admonished him to
forthwith embark on investigations with fine combs to fish out billions of
dollars looted from Nigeria’s commonwealth and stashed abroad.
“Having served as a member of the
Technical Committee of the Presidential Advisory Council on Corruption, as well
as member of the Technical Committee on the Repositioning of the Nigerian
Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU); he should with fine combs fish out billions
of dollars stashed abroad, and bail Nigerians out of economic quagmire and debt
burden; for common sense dictates that it cannot be only Gen Abacha’s loot,”
Okechukwu retorted, while finally
appealing to Olukoyede’s traducers to divest their emotions and sheathe their
swords.
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