The chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has commenced the restructuring of the anti-graft company.
Olukoyede appointed Mr. Michael Nzekwe as his Chief of Employees.
He additionally appointed zonal administrators for every of the 14 zonal instructions of the fee.
An announcement on the EFCC’s web site mentioned Nzekwe is a top-notch investigator, lawyer and former commander of its Ilorin Zonal Command and is a course-one officer of the fee.
The assertion reads: “He has served in varied departments within the Fee, together with Authorized and Prosecution Division, Division of Operations (now Division of Investigations), Division of Inner Affairs (now Division of Ethics and Integrity), Servicom, and Asset Forfeiture Division.
“A seasoned administrator, he has attended a number of trainings and programs residence and overseas, together with the Advance Defence Intelligence Officers Course organised by the Defence Intelligence Company, DIA. The appointment takes quick impact and he has assumed duties.
“Olukoyede, in his restructuring and repositioning of the EFCC, equally upgraded all of the Zonal Instructions of the Fee to the standing of Departments, with every of them headed by a Director. To this impact, 14 new administrators have been appointed to go every of the Zonal Instructions. Moreover, to bolster and fortify the safety structure of the Fee, the Safety Unit of the EFCC has been upgraded to a division with a seasoned officer appointed as Director, Safety and Chief Safety Officer.
“A brand new division has additionally been created within the Govt Chairman’s workplace and it’s headed by former Makurdi Zonal Commander of the EFCC, Mr. Friday Ebelo, who additionally doubles as Director and Coordinator, Particular Duties, on the company headquarters of the Fee. The previous Division of Inner Affairs has been renamed Division of Ethics and Integrity and minor reshuffling effected in some departments on the headquarters.
“An necessary part of the restructuring is the creation of a brand new division to drive the preventive mandate of the EFCC. Olukoyede, in an unprecedented transfer, created the Fraud Danger Evaluation and Management Division to deal with this all-important work of the Fee. The division has commenced operations and its affect can be felt extra throughout the nation in a short time.
“Olukoyede says that the continued restructuring is supposed for the repositioning and strengthening of the EFCC to ship on its assigned mandate optimally.”
