The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has sacked 40 members of staff over the past two and a half years.
EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede disclosed this during an interaction with journalists in Abuja on Monday.
According to him, the erring officers were sacked for engaging in corruption practices that could tarnish the anti-graft commission’s image.
He also disclosed that five of the sacked personnel were currently being prosecuted.
The EFCC boss added that the case files of others yet to face prosecution were being prepared.
“In the past two and a half years or three years of my service, I have asked them to dismiss over 40 staff on account of corruption and financial malpractice.
“More than five of them are being prosecuted at the moment. You can follow those cases in court; they are public knowledge,” he said.
Olukoyede noted that this was part of efforts to ensure personnel of the commission maintained the highest standards of integrity while investigating and prosecuting corruption cases.
According to him, the EFCC had also introduced measures to strengthen accountability among its personnel, including a gift policy designed to regulate the acceptance and declaration of gifts by staff.
Under the policy, he said, personnel would be required to declare assets valued above a specified threshold, including gifts received from relatives abroad.
Olukoyede said the EFCC would determine the categories and value of gifts that its personnel could accept, stressing that the policy was aimed at ensuring that staff could account for their means of livelihood and standard of living.
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