Tinubu Appoints New EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede

• Olukoyede takes over from the suspended EFCC boss, Bawa.

• The president also appointed a new secretary for the commission.

• He tasked them to justify the confidence reposed in them.

Eko Hot Blog reports that President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ola Olukoyede as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The presidency made the disclosure in a statement on Thursday.

Olukoyede, a former Secretary of the EFCC, replaces the suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, AbdulRasheed Bawa.

The four-year renewable appointment is pending a senate confirmation.

Olukoyede is a lawyer with over 22 years of experience as a regulatory compliance consultant and specialist in fraud management and corporate intelligence.

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,” the presidency said.

Meanwhile, Tinubu has also appointed Muhammad Hassan Hammajoda to serve as the secretary of the commission for a renewable term of five years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation.

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 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (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,” the statement added.

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