EFCC Boss, Olukoyede Appoints Chief Of Staff, 14 Zonal Directors
Ola Olukoyede, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has appointed Michael Nzekwe as his Chief of Staff.
This was as he also appointed Zonal Directors for each of the 14 Zonal Commands of the commission.
Nzekwe, a lawyer and former Commander of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the anti-graft agency, is described as a “topnotch investigator” in a statement released by the Commission’s Head of Publicity, Dele Oyewale, on Saturday.
He has served in various departments in the Commission, including the Legal and Prosecution Department, Department of Operations (now Department of Investigations), Department of Internal Affairs (now Department of Ethics and Integrity), Servicom, and Asset Forfeiture Department.
“A seasoned administrator, he has attended several trainings and courses at home and abroad, including the Advance Defence Intelligence Officers Course organized by the Defence Intel Agency, DIA. The appointment takes immediate effect and he has assumed duties,” Oyewale said.
Meanwhile, the statement made it known that Olukoyede, in his restructuring and repositioning of the EFCC, equally upgraded all the zonal commands of the Commission to the status of Departments, with each of them headed by a Director.
To this effect, 14 new Directors have been appointed to head each zonal command. Additionally, to bolster and fortify the security architecture of the Commission, the Security Unit of the EFCC has been upgraded to a Department with a seasoned officer appointed as Director, Security, and Chief Security Officer.
A new department has also been established in the Executive Chairman’s office and is headed by the former Makurdi Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Friday Ebelo, who also doubles as Director and Coordinator of special Duties at the corporate headquarters of the Commission.
The former Department of Internal Affairs has been renamed Department of Ethics and Integrity and minor reshuffling effected in some Departments at the headquarters.
“Olukoyede says that the ongoing restructuring is meant for the repositioning and strengthening of the EFCC to deliver on its assigned mandate optimally.”
