•Hails Tinubu’s best talent hunter pick
Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Olatunji Alausa has praised the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede, for elevating the EFCC to what he called the highest level of standards in the agency’s history.
Alausa spoke Tuesday at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja during the handover of beds and mattresses recovered from a major cybercrime operation and forfeited to the Federal Government (FG).
The recovered items, 501 double-step bunks, 939 mattresses, and 12 wooden beds with mattresses, will be distributed to Federal Unity Colleges nationwide.
“Chairman, I commend you for bringing the highest level of standards to the EFCC,” Alausa said.
The assets were seized under Operation Eagle Flush, which led to the arrest and investigation of 792 suspects, including 193 foreign nationals. Olukoyede confirmed that all suspects were convicted, with foreign nationals deported to their home countries.
The EFCC boss said the handover reflects the Commission’s commitment to ensuring proceeds of crime directly benefit Nigerian children and youth.
Olukoyede stated that, “Children and the youth are the greatest victims of corruption and should naturally be the first beneficiaries of the proceeds of such a crime.”
He added that the gesture aligns with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive to improve education quality.
Alausa credited President Tinubu’s appointment of Olukoyede three years ago as a key turning point for the Commission.
“When he brought Mr Ola Olukoyede to the EFCC, the President knew what he was doing. Today, three years later, we have the cleanest EFCC in the history of this country,” the minister said.
He described Tinubu as “the best talent hunter in this country, and presumably in the world,” noting the President “will never give somebody an assignment he does not know they can handle.”
The minister stressed that under Olukoyede, the EFCC has operated strictly within the rule of law and has not been used to harass innocent citizens. “We have an EFCC that is operating within the confines of the rule of law,” Alausa said.
He also commended Olukoyede’s shift from reactive to proactive anti-corruption strategies, particularly in tackling procurement fraud, which he called “the biggest part of corruption in our government.”
“He has worked assiduously to really help proactively reduce that, not in a reactive manner. That's what leadership is all about,” Alausa noted.
Olukoyede said the handover continues EFCC’s support for education, citing N50 billion in recovered funds already disbursed to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, and the conversion of Nok University to the Federal University of Applied Sciences, Kachia, Kaduna State.
#EFCC #OlaOlukoyede #MarufAlausa #EducationNigeria #AntiCorruption #Tinubu #OperationEagleFlush #UnityColleges #NELFUND #ProceedsOfCrime #NigeriaNews
All rights reserved. The content on this website, including text and other digital materials, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed in part without the express written consent of The News Accelerator Network.
For advertising inquiries, news coverage, or press releases, please get in touch with us at
📧 thenewsacceleratornetwork@gmail.com
📞 08051017159 or 09019914663
Kindly follow us on: https://www.facebook.com/thenewsaccelerator
You can also subscribe to our YouTube channels here:ucvelrc3winkz7tdmhmzarmqhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/sub_confirmation=1
Post a Comment