Mr. Ola Olukoyede who is the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has ordered that sting operations at night time be stopped in all the Commands of the commission.
Africa Today News, New York reports that this is in line with the newly-reviewed procedures on arrest and bail of suspects by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Olukoyede, in a statement issued by EFCC’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, gave the directive in Abuja on Wednesday, 1st November, 2023 in reaction to the arrest of 69 suspected internet fraudsters by operatives of the Ibadan Zonal of the Commission in Ile-Ife, Osun State.
The statement said already, many of the suspects duly profiled by the Command have been released, while profiling of suspects yet un-released would be completed, without further delay.
‘The Commission wishes to assure the public that it will not relent in its adherence to the rule of law, in the exercise of its mandate,’ it said.
Recall that Olukoyede had last week called on youths across Nigeria to embrace right value systems by refraining from internet-related crimes and other offences.
He gave the charge on 24th October, 2023 when a delegation of students from Oloye Comprehensive College, Abuja, visited the corporate headquarters of the Commission, in Jabi, Abuja on a Study Tour.
The Chairman who spoke through Head, Media & Publicity Unit of the Commission, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE1 Dele Oyewale said right value systems by youths have great prospects of helping them to build resistance against crimes. He called on youths to redirect their focus from the existing negative value systems; such as the get–rich- at-all- cost value system, materialist value system, and impunity to a more acceptable positive value system.