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Oversight: Reps give EFCC boss Olukoyede ultimatum to appear

The House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes, Thursday, expressed displeasure with the snobbish attitude of the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede.

The committee consequently gave him an ultimatum of Tuesday next week to appear alongside his management team to answer questions as they relate to the commission’s budget performance, and its challenges.

The committee had visited the EFCC headquarters, after communicating to the anti graft agency and agreeing to a date, for an oversight visit, but was surprisingly told that the chairman was called for an unexplained emergency development at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Chairman of the committee, Hon. Obinna Ginger Onwusibe, in expressing the panel’s displeasure said: “We are just coming back from the headquarters of EFCC as it is the core mandate of this committee to oversight both EFCC and the NFIU (Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit).

“In performing our constitutional functions, we have written to the EFCC for this oversight visit. The latest letter we wrote to EFCC was last week, and we all agreed that the oversight is going to be today.

“The essence of the oversight is for the committee to know the budget performance of EFCC and as appropriated by this National Assembly. That was exactly why we went, and to also see other things, including the challenges being faced by the EFCC.

“To our greatest surprise, when we got there, we did not see the chairman. We only saw the subordinates of the chairman. We had requested that the chairman, including all the zonal commanders of the EFCC from all the zones be invited today for us to interface with them, but the committee also saw that they were not on ground.

“The committee resolved that we cannot continue with the oversight, and we have also resolved further, to summon the EFCC chairman and his team to appear before this committee by next week, Tuesday.  He is going to get our official letter, inviting him to come and face this committee,” he said.

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