President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has authorized the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to function the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable time period of 4 years within the first occasion, pending Senate affirmation.
The approval of Mr Olukoyede was contained in a press release launched and signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, on Thursday.
Mr Olukoyede’s appointment follows the resignation of the suspended Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa.
Mr. Ola Olukoyede is a lawyer with over twenty-two (22) years of expertise as a regulatory compliance guide and specialist in fraud administration and company intelligence.
He has in depth expertise within the operations of the EFCC, having beforehand served as Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman (2016-2018) and Secretary to the Commission (2018-2023).
The assertion added that Olukoyede fulfills the statutory requirement for appointment as Chairman of the EFCC.
“By the powers vested in President Bola Tinubu as established in section 2 (3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004, that “the Chairman and members of the Commission, other than ex-officio members, shall be appointed by the President,” President Tinubu has authorized the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to function the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable time period of 4 years within the first occasion, pending Senate affirmation.”
Furthermore, the Nigerian Leader additionally authorized the appointment of Mr. Muhammad Hassan Hammajoda to function the Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable time period of 5 years within the first occasion, pending Senate affirmation.
Mr. Muhammad Hassan Hammajoda is a public administrator with in depth expertise in public finance administration who holds a Bachelor of Science diploma in Accounting from the University of Maiduguri and a Masters in Business Administration from the identical college.
Hammajoda started his profession as a lecturer on the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi.
He then proceeded to the banking sector the place he had stints on the defunct Allied Bank and Standard Trust Bank.
President Bola Tinubu duties the brand new management of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to justify the boldness given to them on this vital nationwide task as a newly invigorated conflict on corruption undertaken via a reformed institutional structure within the anti-corruption sector stays a central pillar of the President’s Renewed Hope agenda.
