Ekweremadu Not EFCC’s Anti-Corruption Ambassador
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.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
20th April, 2016
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