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Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by prinsam30: 12:12pm On Apr 20, 2016
nothing we no go hear for this country
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by NaijaEfcc: 12:13pm On Apr 20, 2016
I don't understand, everything is confusion in this All People's Confusion government!! so are they saying that Staffs can act on their own?? and go scott free?? just like the padded budget!! nothing wey we no go see!! grin
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Babalegba(m): 12:14pm On Apr 20, 2016
I'm glad the thing has been reversed. It's like asking the cat to guard fried fish
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by bigtt76(f): 12:22pm On Apr 20, 2016
Sack him!
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by DjAduba(m): 12:26pm On Apr 20, 2016
I talk ammmm! That news na fake
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Buchoalfa: 12:33pm On Apr 20, 2016
I blame Buhari. He has called the EFCC boss .
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by chigoizie7(m): 12:46pm On Apr 20, 2016
hurricaneChris:
I knew that news was fake.

Someone who still has forgery case in with the police can never be involved in such ambassadorial role.
Do u have a comprehension problem?
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Nobody: 12:48pm On Apr 20, 2016
IVORY2009:
Nigeria will always be Nigeria, someone has been awarded a title, only for an "Oga" @ the top in Abuja to query the officer that made/awarded such title, its really disappointing where this govt is heading to..... shocked
You should be happy that EFCC has dissociated itself from this farce.
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by bedspread: 12:52pm On Apr 20, 2016
THE ELDERS IN THE APC GOVERNMENT HAD TO PUT THE EFCC TO ORDER. THEY. KNOW WHAT THESE MEANT. WHAT I SEE HERE IS SOMEONE TRIED TO BUY THE DEPUTY SENATE PRESIDENT TO THEIR SIDE INCASE HE BECOMES THE SENATE PRESIDENT
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Angelb4: 12:58pm On Apr 20, 2016
chukwudi44:
The news was not fake,a senior EFCC official decorated him with the award.I suppose the authorities at aso rock picked office with it hence this press release
Deco...what? Where is the picture? FiDiFi has been relegated to the level by which its members will be looking for ambassadorial decoration. There is God ooo
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by belente(m): 1:07pm On Apr 20, 2016
Confused government
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by IVORY2009(m): 1:10pm On Apr 20, 2016
garfield16:
You should be happy that EFCC
has dissociated itself from this farce.
Question
Who awarded the title @ the first place? Was the commission sleeping when the award was going out?
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Samtob90(m): 1:20pm On Apr 20, 2016
Does the name Chukwudi44 mean corruption? Because everywhere I read his comment, he always honour anybody relating to corruption
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by danxzy: 1:23pm On Apr 20, 2016
this is confirm lie cux senate ike ekweremmadu can not be ambassador of corruption, that idiot that is saying this must be a fool. is like he dont like enugu man to be in the national assembly
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Nobody: 1:32pm On Apr 20, 2016
kahal29:
Abuja – The Economic and Financial Commission has disowned the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu as its anti-corruption ambassador.
Ekweremadu was reportedly decorated as an ambassador of the anti-graft agency by its National Assembly Liaison Officer, Sulaiman Bakari, on Tuesday.

But apparently angered by such appointment and decoration of the DSP, the commission kicked against it on Wednesday morning, saying th‎at it did not authorise Bakari to confer such status on Ekweremadu or any other politician for that matter.

In a statement dissociating the commission from the action, EFCC Spokesman. Wilson Uwujaren, claimed Bakari acted on his own as the commission does not give awards but investigates economic and Financial crimes.


Wilson said: “The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to some reports in the print and online media, on April 20, 2016 claiming that the anti-graft agency has decorated the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, as “Anti-Corruption Ambassador”.

“According to a statement issued to the Press by the Special Adviser to the Deputy Senate President, Uche Anichukwu, the purported decoration, was carried out by the EFCC National Assembly Liaison Officer, Suleiman Bakari who was quoted to have said: “ On behalf of my acting chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Mustafa Magu and the entire management and staff of the EFCC, decorate you as an Anti- Corruption Ambassador and formally present this frame, as a token of our appreciation to your person and office, and as a symbol of the institutional partnership between the EFCC and the National Assembly”.

“The EFCC totally dissociates itself from the purported action of Sulaiman Bakari as he acted entirely on his own. “He clearly acted outside his brief as a liaison officer as the management of the Commission at no time mandated him to decorate Ekweremadu or any officer of the National Assembly as Anti- Corruption Ambassador.

“The statutory mandate of the EFCC is the investigation and prosecution of all economic and financial crimes cases, which does not include the decoration of individuals as anti- corruption ambassadors.

“The Commission is not in the habit of awarding titles to individuals. And those enamoured of titles, know the quarters to approach for such honours, not the EFCC

Members of the public and stakeholders in the fight against corruption are enjoined to disregard the so-called decoration, Uwujaren said.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/%e2%80%8eefcc-disowns-ekweremadu-anti-corruption-ambassador/
That bakari guy should resign as a
matter of urgency
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Nobody: 1:35pm On Apr 20, 2016
IVORY2009:
Question
Who awarded the title @ the first place? Was the commission sleeping when the award was going out?
T hEFCC have said they did not sanction the award, that is their official position and unless you have evidence to the contrary that is what happened. An errant officer went beyond his pay grade and gave an award he wasn't authorized to give. This is one of the legacies of unprofessionalism in all facets of Nigerian life...including AllrightSirIsm, blurring of official boudaries and lack of due process. Now it's not enough to just issue a statement denouncing the award. I fully expect the errant official to be publicly sanctioned. If we really are in an era of change as a message needs to be sent out that the days of cowboys are over.

I am not holding my breath though considering that Magu was present at the IstandwithBuhari rally.....a rally he should never have participated in if he had any brains. He clearly doesnlt understand the concept of sensitivity and decorum of the office he holds, so it's no surprise a junior officer overstepped his authority.


Let's not pretend that we don't live in Nigeria, incompetency is rife in Nigeria, particularly the public service and the EFCC has not escaped the disease (hence they announce arrests before they investigate and we never hear of convictions, but at least they've had the good sense to denounce the sham!
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by kulekaa(m): 1:52pm On Apr 20, 2016
chukwudi44:
The news was not fake,a senior EFCC official decorated him with the award.I suppose the authorities at aso rock picked office with it hence this press release
mr corruption it's supposed 2 b offence
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by ican2020: 2:16pm On Apr 20, 2016
The grand pa tourist will not waste time to hammer the man smiley smiley smiley smiley smiley smiley
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Octech: 2:38pm On Apr 20, 2016
I don't know why members of our NAS have to always form the habit of imposing on themselves and taken for themselves titles unduly. First and foremost, the election of the president of the senate in 2015 was conducted when most of the house members were away to with Buhari and now this one. Our top government officials should just beware of impostors.
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by eDoc: 3:27pm On Apr 20, 2016
hurricaneChris:
I knew that news was fake.

Someone who still has forgery case in with the police can never be involved in such ambassadorial role.
The news was not fake,we hear anti corruption award and think efcc immediately,na them them organise the award.
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by eDoc: 3:27pm On Apr 20, 2016
Gamesmart:
It is time to sack Suleiman Bakari and then probe his accounts.
His file would soon be opened.(loading)
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by specco(m): 3:45pm On Apr 20, 2016
hurricaneChris:
I knew that news was fake.

Someone who still has forgery case in with the police can never be involved in such ambassadorial role.
I knew that Apc will not take it lying low. Imagine all their affort to discredit anything 'PDP' and tar them with corruption brush. No, Apc govt will not stomach it hence the denial. But dont worry Ike Nigerians know.
I hope Apc will not turn Nigeria into an inconclusive country.
Inconcluvive elections
Inconvlusive budget
Inconclusive Award
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Brimstone1: 4:17pm On Apr 20, 2016
Serious.
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Ricswagger: 6:40pm On Apr 20, 2016
hurricaneChris:
I knew that news was fake.

Someone who still has forgery case in with the police can never be involved in such ambassadorial role.
u read the news at all? how is the news fake? Bakari gave the award efcc came out today to say that they don't give award but investigate financial crimes






DON'T ALLOW COMMON SENSE TO ELUDE YOU because OF HATRED FOR EKWEREMADU O
Re: EFCC Disowns Ekweremadu As Anti-corruption Ambassador by Nobody: 7:22pm On Apr 20, 2016
Gamesmart:
It is time to sack Suleiman Bakari and then probe his accounts.
That's the Modus Operandi grin grin grin grin
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