Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide praises Tinubu for sacking EFCC chair Bawa

OHANAEZE Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has praised President Bola Tinubu for suspending as Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa saying it showed that his government was a serious one.

Earlier this week, President Tinubu suspended Mr Bawa as part of a series of changes that saw him remove the Central Bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefiele and also appoint Caroline Adepoju as the acting comptroller general of the Nigeria Immigration Service. Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, the national president of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, said the president’s action was heart-warming.

Mazi Nnabuike recalled that his group had asked former president Muhammadu Buhari to fire Mr Bawa but he refused to heed their advice. Ohanaeze had accused Mr Bawa of merchandising the commission and Mazi Nnabuike said a thorough investigation must be conducted on all his activities as EFCC chairman.

“In the history of the EFCC, no chairman of the commission has ever come under public scrutiny in such a short period of time like Bawa. The same goes for many of the staff under him, justifying the aphorism, like father, like son. This shows how dirty the commission has become.”

“Bawa is a disappointment to the youth constituency, he was given the opportunity to prove that youths can hold any leadership position and deliver but he messed up a rare opportunity. We laud President Bola Tinubu for ridding the EFCC of cancerous leadership provided by Bawa.

"He made a total mockery of the system and for that, his name would remain in the infamous book of history. We urge Mr President to continue in his ongoing efforts to cleanse the system; he should sustain the tempo; nobody should be spared.

“All those who played one role or the other to retard the country’s progress must be held to account, no matter how highly placed,” Mazi Nnabuike added.