Rising from a three-day Management Retreat, the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has restated its
commitment to enhanced professionalism and integrity in driving the nation’s
fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption.
This resolve was made in Uyo, Akwa-ibom State on
Saturday, March 15, 2025 by top brass of the Commission led by its
Executive Chairman , Mr. Ola Olukoyede at the end of a three-day Retreat
for Directors of the EFCC.
Speaking on the theme of the Retreat, “EFCC: the
Journey So Far, Ensuring Professionalism and Integrity”, Olukoyede
pointed out that” professionalism and integrity are key to the future relevance
and effectiveness of the EFCC. Integrity is a fragile commodity that we
must carefully nurture, protect and safeguard to guarantee the trust and
respect of our various publics”. He promised that the EFCC’s workforce
would turn out to be a critical mass of honest, highly motivated and
effective team.
The Retreat provided opportunity for critical
and no-holds-barred review of activities of the EFCC in 2024. Most
striking in the previous year was milestones recorded in asset recovery,
arrests, prosecution, strategic redirection, and organizational
re-engineering, leading to the establishment of new departments and
restructuring of others.
In 2024, the Commission secured 4111 convictions
and hauled monetary recovery of over N365.4billion. The EFCC’s boss appreciated
the sacrifice, hard work, discipline, and commitment of staff of
the Commission in making such achievements. He called for increased
dedication to surpass the records of 2024 and greater commitment to the
integrity of processes in the agency.
Key Resource Persons made presentations at
the Retreat. One of them, Professor Tonnie Iredia spoke on “The
Role of Personnel in Information Management and Public Perception of the EFCC”,
stressing that wrong perception of the works of the EFCC was coming out
of deliberate distortion and outright cynicism about the strides and
courageous works of the Commission. He applauded the
“passion, integrity, and transparent leadership Olukoyede is offering the
Commission” and called for more involvement of Nigerians in the anti-graft
fight.
Another speaker, Mr Femi Falana,
SAN, went down memory lane about the evolvement of the Commission and
affirmed that” the Commission has come to stay”. He commended Olukoyede
and the entire staff of the Commission for being undaunted, resolute and
progressive in moving the anti-graft war forward, promising that challenges
being posed by the judiciary would be looked into to ensure that the Commission
fully delivers on its mandate of tackling corrupt practices across the country.
Other highlights of the Retreat include
driving digital transformation and innovation of processes and systems in
the Commission through procurement of cutting-edge technology to aid the works
of the EFCC, enhanced staff welfare, improving the brand
equity of the Commission and doing the right thing always for the nation and
the entire world.
Olukoyede is positive that, “ in another six months, we will deliver a brand new EFCC in Nigeria.”
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