Tinubu applauds Olukoyede for notable asset recovery, conviction records

President Bola  Ahmed Tinubu has showered encomiums connected the Ola Olukoyede enactment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for achieving caller heights successful plus betterment and convictions.

He gave the commendation  successful his keynote code and authoritative opening of the 7th EFCC-NJI Capacity Building Workshop for Justices and Judges,  connected Monday, October 20, 2025 astatine the National Judicial Institute, Abuja with the theme: “Enhancing Justice successful the Fight against Economic and Financial Crimes.”

The President who was represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima stated that, “As an medication we person prioritized nationalist accountability by strengthening the anti-corruption agencies and accorded them the needed independency to execute their statutory mandates. This enabling situation is evident successful the interaction that has been made successful the past 2 years.

“The EFCC for illustration has recorded implicit 7,000 convictions successful the archetypal 2 years of the contiguous medication and recovered assets successful excess of Five Hundred Billion Naira.  Recovered proceeds of transgression by the bureau person been ploughed backmost into the system to money captious societal concern programmes, including the Students Loan and Consumer Credit schemes.”

The President called connected judges and justices to springiness their utmost successful the combat against corruption, noting that the judiciary was critical  to  a palmy anti-crime fight.  Corruption, helium said, tin beryllium rooted retired successful the state if citizens take to bash what is close and those who deviate are punished accordingly.

“We person an accidental to consolidate the efforts of the past 2 years to present an optimal anti-corruption model that volition enactment our peaceful maturation and development. A Nigeria escaped of corruption is possible, if we each perpetrate to doing what is close successful our respective spheres of power and ensuring that those who deviate from the norm are not allowed to spell scot-free. A robust judicial strategy is cardinal to the occurrence of anti corruption efforts and I number connected our judges.

“We person allowed some the judiciary and the anti-graft agencies to workout their law and statutory powers to dispense justness and reconstruct sanity. The grounds is earlier your eyes. We cannot assertion to person excelled successful our pursuit of a transparent strategy if we bash not unrecorded by specified examples.  Courts and judges are beardown pillars of the anti-corruption process.  Except the nine has afloat assurance that those who pillage our resources volition beryllium subjected to the regularisation of instrumentality and brought to justness done a just and transparent process of adjudication, the sneers implicit our corporate committedness to warring corruption volition lone get louder. This constituent should resonate with your lordships. Your vantage presumption connected the seat does not insulate you from the consequences of corruption.

“There are nary peculiar roads, hospitals oregon communities for judges. We each store successful the aforesaid markets and look the aforesaid hazard of insecurity which is simply a culmination of decades of willful theft and wastage of the nation’s resources by corrupt nationalist officials. I judge that it is successful the involvement of each Nigerians, members of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary to articulation hands successful this important task of warring and winning the warfare against corruption successful Nigeria,” helium said.

Olukoyede successful his opening remarks, noted that though helium had ever been conscious of the tremendous relation of the judiciary successful enforcing the regularisation of instrumentality and accountability successful the people of his enactment successful fraud absorption and regulatory compliance, the past 2 years of superintending the affairs of the EFCC person further brought the value of the judiciary arsenic the cornerstone successful the combat against corruption into sharper focus.

He regretted the long-winding courtroom procedures that encumber the Commission’s advancement successful precocious illustration corruption cases.

“The milestones we person recorded successful the past 2 years are astir overshadowed by nationalist interest implicit the advancement of precocious illustration cases successful court. The seeming convoluted trajectory of galore cases involving politically exposed persons evoke gasps of exasperation, incredulity and sometimes disdain by the people. Without mentioning circumstantial cases and courts, determination are cases filed ...