{"id":94387,"date":"2025-07-10T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94387"},"modified":"2025-07-10T18:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T18:21:36","slug":"efcc-boss-pleads-with-lawmakers-for-law-against-unexplained-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=94387","title":{"rendered":"EFCC boss pleads with lawmakers for law against unexplained wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olukoyede to NASS Members: Give us a Law Against Unexplained Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,\u00a0 Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged members of the National Assembly to enact a law against unexplained wealth, stressing that it will boost the fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>He made the call in Abuja on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, \u00a0at the National Conference\u00a0 on Public Accounts and Fiscal Governance convened by the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives.\u00a0\u00a0He decried the lack of legislation against unexplained wealth, maintaining that corruption is strengthened when people living above their means are not brought to book.\u00a0 \u00a0\u201c I want to make an appeal to you all, please, pass the bill on unexplained wealth\u201d,\u00a0 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0 called for transparency in resource management at all levels of government stressing that Nigeria is bountifully blessed with resources but without prudent management,\u00a0 nothing tangible would be achieved.\u00a0 \u201c We need transparency in resource management.\u00a0 That\u2019s all we need. Everywhere you go in Nigeria, you see natural resources all around you. We will succeed if we are resolute about resource management\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC\u2019s boss also located a direct nexus between mismanagement of resources and insecurity, maintaining that \u201c mismanagement of resources is behind banditry,\u00a0 kidnapping,\u00a0 terrorism and other acts of insecurity\u201d.\u00a0 He called on Nigerians to optimize the opportunities of turnaround prevalent in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s government \u00a0stressing that, \u201c the administration of\u00a0 President Tinubu is the best opportunity we have , we must not miss it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He called on custodians of stolen assets abroad to cooperate with the EFCC in getting the assets returned to the country,\u00a0 arguing that \u201c custodians of stolen assets are as guilty as those that stole the assets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The House Committee Chairman on Public Accounts,\u00a0 Honourable Bamidele Salaam appreciated the EFCC Chairman\u2019s \u00a0contributions and called for a review of the nation\u2019s cost of labour to make Nigerians live above inducements to corruption.\u00a0 \u201c We must do something about our wage system if we are serious about the fight against corruption\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf By <strong>Dele Oyewale<\/strong>, Head, Media &amp; Publicity, EFCC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olukoyede to NASS Members: Give us a Law Against Unexplained Wealth The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,\u00a0 Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged members of the National Assembly to enact a law against unexplained wealth, stressing that it will boost the fight against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption. 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