Olukoyede directs EFCC personnel to declare their assets

Olukoyede directs EFCC personnel to declare their assets

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has ordered all personnel of the commission to declare their assets in line with civil service regulations and procedures.

Olukoyede gave the directive at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday.

Spokesman for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, in a statement quoted the anti-graft boss as saying, “All of us are going to declare our assets; from level 17, downward. I did mine; so there’s no reason for anyone to be afraid to do the same.”

Olukoyede also said, “We will declare our assets, and we are going to investigate it. We must live above board by setting the pace with good examples.

“As anti-corruption fighters, our hands must be clean; so we must declare our assets.”

The EFCC chairman called on the personnel of the commission to pay more attention to the basis of fighting economic and financial crimes.

He also charged them to be professional, thorough in their engagements, rich in integrity and be non-partisan.

He warned “those compromising their works and position” to desist from such conduct, as “dire consequences await every unsavoury tendency”.

“We must do our job to add value to the nation. Investors must have confidence in the economy and we must help the country to be governed in an accountable and transparent manner,” he added.

“By doing this, it will offer us a new direction to redeem the image of the nation.

“Please, I beg you, let’s our hands be clean and put our house in order. Some may not like me, but I am going to do the right thing and treat everybody equally irrespective of religion, ethnicity and region.”