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Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has openly acknowledged that the agency is not free of bad eggs, affirming that internal corruption is being tackled head-on.
During an interview with Channels TV on April 30, Olukoyede responded to growing concerns that some EFCC operatives enrich themselves through corrupt practices.
“I won’t sit here and say everybody has become a saint in the EFCC. That day will never come everybody will be a saint,” he stated.
“People working in the EFCC are human beings and not spirits. There will be this propensity for people to misbehave, overzealousness and all that stuff.”
Olukoyede emphasized that integrity remains central to the commission’s mission.
“If we are going to fight corruption, we must fight it from the position of integrity,” he said. “We sank that into the minds of every operative in the EFCC.”
He revealed that after reviewing disciplinary records, the commission found several operatives guilty of misconduct.
“We set up a disciplinary committee… and we found quite a number of them culpable.
“We reviewed it and agreed that those people should leave the system and Nigerians knew that is exactly what we did,” Olukoyede explained.
So far, 27 officials have been removed from the agency, and more investigations are ongoing. “We didn’t stop at that.
“There are so many cases we are still working on and we will begin to take actions and apply sanctions as well,” he added.
Reassuring the public, Olukoyede vowed, “The promise I have made to Nigerians is that as soon as we discover such characters, we will do something about them in line with our processes and the law.”