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Anti-graft War: Olukoyede Hails Late Yar’adua’s leadership Qualities

POSTED ON May 7, 2024 •   Politics      BY Benedicta Bassey •   VIEWS 140
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede/Photo credit: Pulse Nigeria


The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has called on Nigerian leaders to emulate the leadership character of former President of Nigeria, Umaru Musa Yar’adua.

Recall that Yar’adua became president in 2007, but died in 2010 as a result of ill-health.

Olukoyede said Yar’adua displayed qualities of integrity and transparency, which he noted were key tools in making a good leader.

The EFCC boss made this statement at the first President Umaru Musa Yar’adua International Leadership Conference and Awards in Abuja.

The EFCC boss who spoke on ‘Leadership; Antidote to National Development’ represented by the Director of Public Affairs of the Commission, Wilson Uwujaren, said, “The EFCC as a commission identifies with the legacy Yar’adua left behind because that is what the Commission stands for, which is integrity and transparency.

“If you look at the theme of this event, it borders on moral and ethical leadership and that is what he stood for both as Katsina governor and as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“These are virtues we are here to identify with and I want to also believe that the future generation will imbibe these virtues.

“If you look at the work of the EFCC, the mandate that the government has given us captures the key points of integrity, fairness and transparency in both the public and private sector, so all the crimes that we set out to fight, are all about integrity and ethics.

“Are we talking about embezzlement, bribery, contract inflation and all the ills that we will find in the public sector? All boils down to the absence of integrity. So I want to implore us to imbibe integrity in all that we do.”

Continuing, the EFCC boss said that the commission was committed to the provisions of its Establishment Act, vowing that the Commission will not relent in its enforcement roles.

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