EFCC has released a statement denying media reports that Deputy Senate
President Ike Ekweremadu has been appointed as the agency's
Anti-Corruption ambassador. Read the statement below...
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has
been drawn to some reports in the print and online media, on April 20,
2016 claiming that the anti-graft agency has decorated the Deputy Senate
President, Ike Ekweremadu, as “Anti-Corruption Ambassador”.
According to a statement issued to the Press by the
Special Adviser to the Deputy Senate President, Uche Anichukwu, the
purported decoration, was carried out by the EFCC National Assembly
Liaison Officer, Suleiman Bakari who was quoted to have said: “ On
behalf of my acting chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Mustafa Magu and the entire
management and staff of the EFCC, decorate you as an Anti- Corruption
Ambassador and formally present this frame, as a token of our
appreciation to your person and office, and as a symbol of the
institutional partnership between the EFCC and the National Assembly”.
The EFCC totally dissociates itself from the purported action of
Sulaiman Bakari as he acted entirely on his own.
He clearly acted outside his brief as a liaison officer as the
management of the Commission at no time mandated him to decorate
Ekweremadu or any officer of the National Assembly as Anti- Corruption
Ambassador.
The statutory mandate of the EFCC is the investigation and prosecution
of all economic and financial crimes cases, which does not include the
decoration of individuals as anti- corruption ambassadors. The
Commission is not in the habit of awarding titles to individuals. And
those enamoured of titles, knows the quarters to approach for such
honours, not the EFCC
Members of the public and stakeholders in the fight against corruption
are enjoined to disregard the so-called decoration.
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