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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\u201cI want Nigerians to know that the EFCC is not just about investigating and prosecuting fraudsters; it is also about appreciating and commending Nigerians who are not involved in any form of economic and financial crimes. I commended Pastor Jerry Eze when our investigations showed that he was not involved in money laundering,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olukoyede also warned religious leaders against corrupt practices, stressing that integrity should be the watchword of adherents of every religion.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSpeaking on the 240 small-scale business owners supported with grants of $3,000 each by the Jerry Eze Foundation, the anti-graft chairman noted that such gestures represent a meaningful contribution to nation-building. He urged Nigerians to emulate such efforts by positively impacting lives around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He further commended President Bola Tinubu for approving the release of \u20a6100 billion from the EFCC\u2019s Recovery Account to the Nigerian Education Loan Fund and the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation as seed capital for their take-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNow, we are working on a Cybercrime Research Centre to empower our youth in the area of information technology for the optimization of their talents. We believe that our youths can deploy their talents to socially beneficial purposes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dele Oyewale<\/strong> The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has disclosed that the Commission places a premium on commending upright Nigerians who uphold anti-corruption values, while also holding fraudulent individuals accountable for their criminal activities. He made this disclosure in Abuja on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, while delivering a speech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press-release"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96692,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96690\/revisions\/96692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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