President Tinubu appoints Ola Olukayode as new EFCC chairman

Ola Olukoyede has been authorized by President Tinubu to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of four years in the first example, pending Senate confirmation, as introduced by means of presidential media aide, Ajuri Ngelali.

Ola Olukoyede, a legal professional with over twenty-two years of revel in as a regulatory compliance advisor and specialist in fraud control and company intelligence, fulfills the statutory requirement for appointment as Chairman of the EFCC, given his extensive revel in within the operations of the fee. He up to now served as Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman (2016-2018) and Secretary to the Commission (2018-2023).

Olukoyede’s appointment follows the resignation of the suspended Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa.

Additionally, President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Muhammad Hassan Hammajoda to serve as the Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of five years within the first example, pending Senate confirmation. Hammajoda, a public administrator with in depth revel in in public finance management, holds a Bachelor of Science level in Accounting from the University of Maiduguri and a Masters in Business Administration from the similar college. He started his occupation as a lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, prior to transitioning into banking.

President Bola Tinubu has tasked the new leadership of the EFCC to justify the confidence given to them in the national assignment, as the renewed struggle on corruption, undertaken through a reformed institutional structure within the anti-corruption sector, remains a central pillar of the President’s Renewed Hope time table.

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