Deputy Senate President Ekweremadu Not EFCC’s Anti-Corruption Ambassador – EFCC

 

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says that it has not decorated the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, as “Anti-Corruption Ambassador” of the commission.
This was made known in a statement made available by the Head, Media & Publicity to EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren on Wednesday.

The statement said that 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”.
It said that 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, one 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”.