This is all the while he also named zonal directors to oversee each of the commission’s fourteen zonal commands.
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Nzekwe is a course one officer of the anti-graft commission. He is an excellent investigator, lawyer, and former commander of the EFCC’s Ilorin zonal command.
He worked for the Commission in a number of departments, including Servicom, the Department of Asset Forfeiture, the Department of Internal Affairs (now the Department of Ethics and Integrity), the Department of Operations (now the Department of Investigations), and the Legal and Prosecution Department.
As an experienced administrator, he’s taken part in multiple trainings as well as domestic and international training, such as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Advance Defense Intelligence Officers Course (DIA).
His appointment is effective immediately, and he has started working.
EFCC spokesperson Dele Oyewale added, “Olukoyede upgraded all of the zonal commands of the commission to the status of departments, with each one headed by a director.” Olukoyede reorganized and repositioned the EFCC.
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14 new directors have been chosen to lead each of the zonal commands in light of this. The EFCC’s security unit has also been elevated to a department with a seasoned officer appointed as director of security and chief security officer in order to strengthen and fortify the commission’s security architecture.
Additionally, a new division has been established in the “An additional department has been established within the executive chairman’s office. It is led by Mr. Friday Ebelo, a former Makurdi zonal commander of the EFCC who also serves as director and coordinator of special responsibilities at the commission’s corporate headquarters,” Oyewale continued.
As for the ongoing reorganization, Olukoyede has stated that it was intended to strengthen and realign the EFCC in order to best carry out its objective.
