We recovered N60bn in 100 days – EFCC chairman, Olukoyede

We recovered N60bn in 100 days – EFCC chairman, Olukoyede

Mr Ola Olukoyede, Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, claims that in less than 100 days after taking office, the anti-graft body received over 5,000 fraud petitions and recovered N60 billion in loot.

He stated that 3,000 of the 5,000 petitions had been cleared for investigation by the EFCC.

On October 12, 2023, President Bola Tinubu named Olukoyede as the EFCC chairman.

He replaced Abdurasheed Bawa, an appointee of former President Muhammadu Buhari, who was suspended, arrested, and kicked out of government by Tinubu.

Olukoyede, speaking on Saturday in Lagos as the guest lecturer at the 20th-anniversary lecture of the Human and Environmental Development Agenda Resources Centre, said the EFCC had recovered over N60bn and $10m, in less than four months since he assumed office.

He said, “When we set out to investigate, people see it as a fight between EFCC and the rest of us. It should not be so. How much will the EFCC do?

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“How much will the ICPC do with its staff strength? I have less than 4,800 staff. I am talking of an agency that is serving people who are over 150 million.

“All we have to do is investigate and present the facts before the court. I will not be the one to give judgment. That is where we have collective responsibility. When you see something, you say something.