• Thursday, February 20, 2025
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EFCC’s failure: Olukoyede is shadow-boxing with blame-shifting

EFCC to closely monitor LG funds, Olukoyede warns chairmen

Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

Like Bola Tinubu, the president who appointed him as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede is full of hot air on tackling corruption in Nigeria. He is all sound and no fury, all talk and no action, all rhetoric but no substance! Olukoyede pontificates and fumes about corruption, yet corruption remains endemic and intractable in Nigeria. As widely reported last week, the latest Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, CPI, shows that Nigeria remains deeply corrupt, as the world’s 36th m