The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has reacted to claims that the commission is filled with corrupt elements.
There have been complains that operatives of the commission corruptly enrich themselves while carrying out their duties.
Responding to these allegations, Olukoyede during an interview with Channels TV this evening April 30, said;
‘’It is important for me and my comrades in the EFCC that if we are going to fight corruption, we must fight it from the position of integrity. We sank that into the minds of every operative in the EFCC and we look into records and we looked into the cases of those with pending disciplinary cases and those who have committed one infraction or the other and 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.
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.
So far we have been able to weed out about 27 people that we have found their character not worthy of being part of this crusade”
Speaking further, he said;
‘’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. 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.
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”
Watch a video of him speaking below
