On Monday in Abuja, the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, told Nigerians a story about himself and asked them to applaud.
The event began with a terse invitation in which EFCC described itself to journalists as a “security and an intelligence agency.”
But that is a gross overreach. EFCC is no such animal. It is an accountability body empowered by law to combat a specific kind of crime.
From Mr Olukoyede, the numbers were, as always, staggering. N1.233 trillion recovered. 10,872 convictions.
A conviction-to-filing ratio he pegged at 75.1 per cent, a statistic he offered with the confident cadence of a man reading from an annual report.
