The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed that more than 40 staff members of the commission have been dismissed for corruption and financial misconduct since he assumed office.
Olukoyede made the disclosure on Monday during a briefing at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja, where he discussed the commission’s activities and reforms under his leadership.
According to him, more than five of the dismissed personnel are currently facing prosecution, while the EFCC is preparing case files against others for possible prosecution.
> “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,” Olukoyede said.
He stressed that the EFCC would not protect its own officers when they are found engaging in the same corrupt practices the commission investigates among members of the public.
Olukoyede questioned why an EFCC officer involved in corruption should only be dismissed when other individuals accused of similar offences are investigated and prosecuted.
“You can follow those cases in court; they are public knowledge,” he said.
The EFCC chairman also announced that the commission had renamed its former Department of Internal Affairs as the Department of Ethics and Integrity as part of efforts to strengthen accountability within the agency.
He said the change was part of what he described as the commission’s ongoing “internal cleansing” process.
Olukoyede further disclosed that the EFCC had introduced a gift policy for its personnel to promote transparency and accountability.
Under the new policy, officers would be required to declare gifts and assets above a specified threshold, including gifts received from relatives abroad.
He said the commission would also establish categories of gifts that its personnel could accept, stressing that officers must be able to account for their sources of income 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 said.
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