The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has promised to implement the findings of a strategic development plan that will serve as a blueprint of the Commission’s activities in the next four years.
Secretary of the Commission, Olanipekun Olukoyede, who spoke on behalf of the acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu made the promise on Monday, June 17, 2019 during the opening of a five day workshop at the Denis Hotel in Abuja.
The workshop with the theme, “EFCC’s Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis and Stakeholder Identification and Analysis”, seek to generate a draft for the new strategic document that will help in the development of an organisational strategy for the anti-graft agency.
While commending stakeholders and organisers of the workshop, he said: “The matter of strategy is second to none, if you want to move forward as an organisation.”
“Strategy is about who we are as a Commission. Our plans and objectives and how to achieve those plans is important as it also shows how to face the challenges as they arise,” he added.
He further urged participants to do their best and come up with a document that will be beneficial to the Commission, promising that their outcome and recommendations will be implemented.
On his part, the Director, Planning, Policy and Statistics of the Commission, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Gusau, further emphasized the need for the workshop.
He said: “We gather members of the prestigious committee drafted from every department of the Commission to come and sit down and deliberate on strategic planning for the next four years for the Commission.
“We are hoping to have a quality document that will take us all along in the next four years in terms of how we portray ourselves, in terms of our focus and to monitor that humanistic aspect of our operations and how professional we are.”
National Programme Manager, Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption, RoLAC, Danladi Bala explained that RoLAC works with the EFCC in terms of training, building capacity, and in terms of developing strategic planning.
“The EFCC has been in the forefront of some achievements this government has made in terms of fighting corruption. It is all the more necessary that we support that success to encourage the Commission to continue to do what it is meant to do,” Bala said.
In attendance at the workshop were selected staff of the Commission, representatives of RoLAC, the European Union and the British Council.
