Breaking: Senate Confirms Olukoyede as EFCC Chairman, Hammajoda as Secretary

*Okays Halima Shehu as NISPA national coordinator

Sunday Aborisade in Abuja

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede and Mr. Muhammad Hammajoda as Chairman and Secretary respectively of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The red chamber has also confirmed the appointment of Mrs. Halima Shehu as the pioneer National Coordinator/Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programmes Agency (NSIPA).

President Bola Tinubu had asked the Senate to screen and confirm their appointments in a letter read at plenary on Tuesday by the Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau.

Tinubu had last week Thursday approved the appointment of Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the EFCC and Hammajoda as Secretary of the Commission for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation.

The appointment came nearly four months after the erstwhile anti-graft agency chief, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa was suspended.

A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, “Mr. Olukayode’s appointment followed the resignation of the suspended Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa.”

Details later….