The Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has mentioned “Nigerians are good people”, however the sickness is that the rustic operates “a system that allows fraud to flourish.”
That is as Olukoyede stressed out the desire for population officeholders to guard transparency and responsibility within the behavior of affairs within the nation.
Olukoyede, who spoke when a delegation of the NDDC control, led by way of its Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, paid him a courtesy discuss with on the EFCC’s headquarters in Abuja, mentioned that he used to be inspired by way of the “Rewind to Rebirth” initiative of the Fee.
This used to be contained in a commentary issued in Port Harcourt on Friday by way of the NDDC Company Affairs Director, Seledi Thompson-Wakama, despatched to newsmen.
The commentary quoted the EFCC chairman, pronouncing, “The 5 mins of interplay with the MD left me with a unique belief of NDDC. I need to congratulate and in addition thanks in your readiness and loyalty in order exchange. Perhaps, we will be able to start to see an NDDC that could be a image of satisfaction, responsibility, transparency and ready to bring on its mandate.
“That’s what the NDDC must be on one?s feet for and I need to thanks for bringing that to the desk. From his presentation, you’ll see that he’s any individual who’s able in order a metamorphosis, and that’s the actual factor that we be on one?s feet for in EFCC.
“It is possible for us to build a system of accountability, transparency and integrity in Nigeria.”
Olukoyede impaired the while to induce all population officeholders to guard probity, transparency and responsibility within the control of the funds they retain in accept as true with for the population figuring out {that a} occasion of reckoning would come.
He mentioned: “All the time have it behind your thoughts that year you’re in this facet as of late, you could be at the alternative facet the next day. Let it’s the tenet for the ones in positions of accept as true with in the whole thing they do.
“That has always been my own guiding principle because you will not be there forever. You can protect certain things today, but if you leave, you will discover that the person closest to you, maybe someone who benefitted from you, would be the one to expose you.”
He additionally mentioned, “Fundamentally, Nigerians are good people. The only problem that we have is the system that we operate; a system that allows fraud to flourish. But if you take the same Nigerian who is corrupt in our system to an environment with strict regulatory compliance and structures, you will discover that he will behave.”
The EFCC boss confident that the Fee would proceed to do its process with resolution and braveness, noting: “We don’t seem to be committing to compromise. We now have been referred to as names and maligned however we’re resolute. We’re transferring ahead as a result of any individual has to try this process and we will be able to do it and ship.
“I told Nigerians upon my assumption of office that we are going to use the instrumentality of the anti-corruption fight to build the economy and ensure good governance.”
Olukoyede confident that the EFCC would proceed to help the NDDC to reach its mandate.
“We now have been running with you to produce cures, we will be able to proceed to do extra.
“The collaboration is something we need to take to the next level, and with what you have put on the table I think we are ready to work with you to strengthen your systems and processes and to take the NDDC to the next level,” he mentioned.
Talking previous, the NDDC Important Government Officer, Dr Ofbuku, defined that the discuss with to EFCC headquarters used to be in idolize of the monetary cures the Fee made by and for the NDDC, which he mentioned had helped in growing the Niger Delta pocket.
He mentioned: “We wish, as a control, to thank the EFCC for supporting the NDDC to produce the cures that experience helped the pocket and the Fee. Mr Chairman, that is to can help you know that the NDDC is making an investment the cures in initiatives.
“At a point, we will invite the EFCC to join us in commissioning some of those projects. It will be a sign that the recoveries made by the EFCC are used to support the development of the Niger Delta.”
Ogbuku mentioned additional: “Aside from thanking you, we additionally got here to can help you know what the NDDC has been doing to this point. Many family had an overly dim affect of the NDDC however we idea that we must glance ahead and no longer backward.
“So, we came up with the policy of rewind to rebirth, because we just have to go back a little to see where we started and what we needed to do in future. We went back to our books and interacted with previous management to know where things went wrong. One of the areas that we have to rebirth the NDDC was in the area of transparency.”
He sued for enhanced collaboration between NDDC and EFCC, watching: “We believe that further collaboration with the EFCC in the area of technical support will further strengthen us as a Commission and guide us in our operations. I also want to use this opportunity to plead with Mr Chairman that before our corporate governance performances and SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) are passed, you should delegate some of your officers to look at the documents and probably make your input in areas where you think you can further contribute in strengthening us as an organisation.”
He additionally pleaded for additional technical assistance within the branch of coaching finance team of workers of the NDDC in monetary control.