EFCC Names Academy Building after Slain Officer
As a gesture of immortalizing a slain officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Assistant Superintendent of the EFCC, ASE 1 Aminu Sahabi Salisu, the Commission has named the administrative block of its Academy in Karu, Abuja after him.
Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday, January 25, 2025 while addressing staff of the Commission at the Annual Rewards and Recognition Ceremony held at the EFCC’s Academy.
According to him, Salisu paid the supreme price in the service of the nation and his memory should be kept alive. “We are saddened by the loss of our officer while on official assignment. He was a gallant officer and to this effect, the administrative block of the Academy is hereby named after him”, he said.
At the ceremony, 36 officers of the Commission were rewarded in different categories. The categories include section with highest recovery, section with highest conviction, lawyer with highest conviction, best departmental staff, best zonal directorate, staff of the year, among others.
Commenting on the winners of various rewards, the EFCC boss stated that ‘’I want to congratulate all the winners for their roles. I can only charge you all not to rest on our oars. Excellence is not about doing things right once in a while, it is about doing things right all the time. You need to continue to offer the best as the reward for hard work is more work’’. Olukoyede also disclosed that 900 staff had been promoted as well as the reinstatement of life and property insurance for staff.
He used the occasion to warn officers of the Commission against compromise of the core values of the EFCC, stressing that ‘’the internal cleansing going on in the Commission will spare no one’’’.
Among recipients of the rewards, Chief Superintendent of the EFCC, CSE Alvan Gurumnaan emerged Staff of the Year while the Sokoto Zonal Directorate emerged the Best Directorate of the Year. The rest are: Bitrus Yakubu, Katmi Kefas, Halilu Dauda, Nenman Danladi, Oluwakemi Aaron, Yusuf Umar, Michael Adukwu Uchechika, David Solomon, among others.
EFCC Rewards Officers for Outstanding Performance
The Ola Olukoyede-led Management of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today, January 25, 2025 honoured officers who discharged their assignments excellently in the course of the year 2024.
Among the recipients were 35 officers and 30 Sections of the Commission. The breakdown shows that 20 officers emerged from each Department as Staff of the Year, while 15 prosecutors were honoured from each Zonal Directorate for securing the highest convictions.
Awards for the highest recoveries and highest convictions went to 15 Sections each from across the Zonal Directorate; as Sokoto Directorate won the Best Zonal Directorate of the year.
While the staff of the Year went to CSE Alvan Gurumnaan of the Department of Special Duties. The late ASE II Aminu Harisu Sahabi who paid the supreme sacrifice in the course of duties, got post humous award for bravery.
Staff of the year went home with a brand new car. Best Staff in Departments were rewarded with N500,000 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira); Prosecutors of the year went home with N1,000,000 (One Million Naira). The 30 Sections with the highest recoveries and convictions also went home with N1,000,000 (One Million Naira) each.
The Zonal Directorate of the Year was rewarded with One Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira only. The Administration Block of the EFCC Academy was equally named after the late Sahabi.
The federal government has sanctioned a contract for the construction of a 258 km three-lane roadway featuring continuous reinforced concrete pavement in the states of Kebbi and Sokoto.
During today’s FEC meeting, the Federal Government granted approval for a segment of the 1,000-kilometer superhighway that will connect Illela in Sokoto State to Badagry in Lagos State. This awarded section begins in Silame, Sokoto State, and concludes in Buya Town, Kebbi.
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TROOPS NEUTRALIZE SEVERAL TERRORISTS IN SOKOTO, RECOVER ARMS, AMMUNITION*
In a discreet operation against marauding terrorists in Sokoto state, troops of 8 Division Garrison today Tuesday 24 October 2023, launched a carefully planned offensive operation into Tukandu Village, targeting a notorious group of terrorists, responsible for various atrocious and heinous activities in the general area.
The troops' fierce onslaught terminated many of the terrorists, while others fled with gunshot wounds. In the following mop up operations, troops recovered three AK-47 Rifles, one PKT Gun, 125 rounds of 7.62 mm Special ammunition, 2 Rocket propelled Gun Bombs and 9 motorcycles.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has lauded the troops, charging them to remain resolute and continue to escalate their operations against the terrorists to decimate and deny them the freedom of action.
ONYEMA NWACHUKWU
Brigadier General
Director Army Public Relations
24 October 2023