suspended<\/a> the erstwhile anti-graft agency chief, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa.<\/p>\n\u201cMr. Olukayode\u2019s appointment follows the resignation of the suspended Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa,\u201d a statement signed by the President\u2019s Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, read on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The statement is titled \u2018President Tinubu appoints new EFCC. Chairman and Secretary of the Commission.\u2019<\/p>\n
Olukoyede is a lawyer with over 22 years of experience as a regulatory compliance consultant and specialist in fraud management and corporate intelligence.<\/p>\n
He has extensive experience in the operations of the EFCC, having previously served as Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman (2016-2018) and Secretary to the Commission (2018-2023). As such, he fulfills the statutory requirement for appointment as Chairman of the EFCC.<\/p>\n
President Tinubu also approved the appointment of Mr. Muhammad Hammajoda to serve as the Secretary of the EFCC for a renewable term of five years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n
Hammajoda is a public administrator with extensive experience in public finance management who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Maiduguri and a Masters in Business Administration from the same university.<\/p>\n
He began his career as a lecturer at the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi. From there, he went into banking, including successful stints at the defunct Allied Bank and Standard Trust Bank.<\/p>\n
The president tasked the new leadership of the commission to justify the confidence given to them in this important national assignment as a newly invigorated war on corruption undertaken through a reformed institutional architecture in the anti-corruption sector remains a central pillar of the President\u2019s Renewed Hope agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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