The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has emphasized that entities created with the sole intention of destroying the economy will not be permitted to thrive.
This was made known in a statement signed by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, on Wednesday.
According to the statement, the EFCC boss stated this during a meeting with the Body of Bank CEOs, under the auspices of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, on a courtesy visit to his office at the corporate headquarters of the EFCC, Abuja.
Olukoyede frowned at sharp practices, compromises, and unethical practices in the banking sector, while he stressed that the ethical reorientation of bank workers was imperative to sanitise the sector.
The statement read in part, “We will work together; we don’t want to see any bank go down; we don’t want to see any business destroyed, especially when you are set up to create wealth and employment, and that is what we need in Nigeria. You help businesses to grow; why should any government want to bring banks down?
“But there are enterprises that are set up to destroy the system; to destroy the economy, we will not allow those ones to survive,” he said.
The EFCC boss further reiterated his commitment to using the instrumentality of the agency’s mandate to stimulate the economy
“One of the policy objectives that I share with Nigerians in the course of my Senate screening and confirmation is to use the instrumentality of this mandate to stimulate the economy.
“That is very important because I know what other anti-corruption agencies do all over the world and that is the key to us and we have started doing that,” he added.
