The Chairman, Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, says the anti-graft company has obtained over 5,000 fraud requests and recovered the loot of N60 billion in lower than 100 days of assuming workplace.
Of the 5,000 petitions, he stated the EFCC had accepted 3,000 for investigation.
President Bola Tinubu appointed Olukoyede EFCC as Chairman on October 12, 2023.
He changed Abdurasheed Bawa, an appointee of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, who was suspended, detained and faraway from workplace by Tinubu.
Talking in Lagos on Saturday as a visitor lecturer on the twentieth anniversary lecture of the Human and Environmental Growth Agenda Sources Centre, Olukoyede stated the EFCC has recovered over N60 billion and $10 million in lower than 4 months since he took workplace.
He stated: “After we exit to analyze, individuals see it as a battle between EFCC and the remainder of us. That shouldn't be the case. How a lot will the EFCC do?
“How a lot will the ICPC do with its workforce? I’ve fewer than 4,800 staff. I'm speaking about an company that serves over 150 million individuals.
“All we’ve got to do is examine and current the information to the court docket. I gained't be the one to go judgment. That’s the place we’ve got a collective duty. Should you see one thing, you say one thing
“The issue is that we work as if we don't work. Once I took workplace between then and now, I obtained over 5,000 petitions. I'm not simply speaking in regards to the one we obtained, however the one we checked and located had substance in it. That’s just for one company, the EFCC.
“As I discuss to you, I’ve accepted the investigation of greater than 3,000 circumstances in lower than 4 months, however what’s our capability? What number of employees do we’ve got? What assets do I’ve entry to?
“In lower than 4 months, we secured 700 convictions and recovered over N60 billion and over $10 million.
“If I can get better over N60 billion in lower than 100 days, you’ll be able to think about how a lot has been stolen.
“I can let you know that of the billion that has been recovered, a trillion has been stolen.”
On his half, the Chairman of HEDA, Mr. Olanrewaju Suraju, famous that the battle in opposition to corruption had been difficult and urged all Nigerians to affix the battle.
“We’d like an efficient and trustworthy police system, then the court docket mustn’t proceed to launch individuals whose corruption circumstances are nonetheless hanging round their necks,” Suraju stated.
