As reactions continue to trail the recent appointment of Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede as the new chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has appealed to his traducers to sheath their swords.
Okechukwu, who is q foundation member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, described the appointment as a game changer for anti-graft-war crusade, going by Olukoyede’s antecedents. He maintained that it is not unusual for controversy to erupt after the appointment to an important and strategic office like the chairman of EFCC, without regards to whether the appointment conforms with extant laws.
” On the legalism of his qualification, Okechukwu, who is also the Director General of Voice of Nigeria, said that he is in league with the preponderance view of senior counsels that Olukoyede’s cognate experience is unassailable having headed the administration of the EFCC and having devoted the last two decades in the fraud tricky profession. 'The intendment of the law is that emphasis should be laid on cognate experience.
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