President Bola Tinubu has appointed former secretary of the EFCC, Ola Olukoyede as the new Chairman for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation.
President’s spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale in a statement disclosed that:
“Mr. Olukoyede is a lawyer with over twenty-two 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 from 2016-2018 and Secretary to the Commission from 2018-2023. As such, he fulfills the statutory requirement for appointment as Chairman of the EFCC.
“Mr. Olukoyede’s appointment follows the resignation of the suspended Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa.
“Furthermore, President Tinubu has approved the appointment of Mr. 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.
“Mr. Hassan 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 Master’s 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.
“The President tasks the new leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission 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”.
