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Abduulrasheed Bawa has become the youngest EFCC boss to assume office after the Senate confirmed him on Wednesday as the new chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The forty-year-old has worked with the anti-graft agency for 16 years and is a Certified fraud examiner and anti-money laundering expert.
Abdulrasheed Bawa bagged a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics(Second Class Upper) in 2001.
In 2004, he started working with the EFCC as an Assistant Detective Superintendent (ADS), later in 2012, he acquired a Master’s Degree in International Affairs and Diplomacy which he obtained from the same University.
According to Channels TV, on Bawa’s CV, the information says he has worked with EFCC for 16 years as a detective and currently pursuing a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of London.
Bawa was part of the pioneer EFCC Cadet officers, course one 2005 and in 2016, he became the Deputy Chief Detective Superintendent (DCDS) till his nomination as the anti-graft agency’s substantive chairman.
During his screening, Mr Bawa assured the federal lawmakers of his commitment to repositioning the commission by ensuring that the anti-graft agency is in a better place before his tenure expires.
Bawa plans to work with strategic international bodies around the world to repatriate Nigerian stolen assets from her coffers adding that the EFCC will be able to achieve this fit by sharing information with its partners.
He promised that at the end of his tenure, the EFCC will be a better place than he met it, noting that his training by the FBI and the National Crime Agency of the United States and the United Kingdom respectively will come in handy.
When asked what he will do differently as the new chairman of the anti-graft agency, Mr Bawa said he will reposition the commission by ensuring that it strengthens its standard operating procedures and improve on them.
He also stated that there will be more transparency and accountability.
The EFCC boss acknowledged that the agency has issues with assets management and to resolve that he said he will digitalise the offices for proper record keeping and noted that the constitution will guide his actions as EFCC Chairman.
Abdulrasheed Bawa will be taking over from Mohammed Umar, who has been the acting Chairman since July 2020 after the suspension of the Ibrahim Magu over allegations of gross misconduct.
Before the screening, President Muhammadu Buhari had penned a letter to the Senate on February 16 to confirm Mr Abdulraheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
In the letter which was received by the Senate President, Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan, Buhari said he was acting by Paragraph 2(3) of Part1, CAP E1 of EFCC Act 2004.
Also included in the letter is a statement that 40-year-old Bawa is “a trained EFCC investigator with vast experience in the investigation and prosecution of Advance Fee Fraud cases, official corruption, bank fraud, money laundering, and other economic crimes.”
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