No fewer than 40 staff members of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been dismissed for corruption and financial malpractice in the last three years.
The Chairman of the commission, Ola Olukoyede disclosed this on Monday at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja, while rolling out achievements recorded by the commission under his leadership.
According to him, the process of prosecution of more than five of the affected staff members had also commenced.
“Because if that is what people do in other agencies and I arrest them, I investigate them, I prosecute them, why must I just dismiss you if you do it within our own system and I’m not prosecuting you?”
“In the past two and a half years or three years of my service, I’ve asked them to dismiss over 40 staff on account of corruption and financial malpractice. More than five of them are being prosecuted at the moment,” he said.
The EFCC chairman said some of the affected staff members are already being prosecuted, while case files involving others are being prepared for prosecution.
“You can follow those cases in court; they are public knowledge,” he said.
EFCC Boss also stated that the commission had renamed its erstwhile department of internal affairs as the department of ethics and integrity, to reflect the commission’s commitment to “internal cleansing”.
Olukoyede, explained that the commission had designed a gift policy for its personnel as part of measures to strengthen accountability within the agency.
According to Olukoyede, staff members would be required to declare assets valued above a specified threshold, including gifts received from relatives abroad.
He said the commission would determine the types of gifts that personnel can accept, adding that the policy would help ensure staff can account for their means of livelihood and standard of living.
“You must be sure that your hands are clean. You can’t be fighting corruption when your hands are soiled with corrupt practices,” Olukoyede added.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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