The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman, Ola Olukoyede, has urged Ayodeji Gbeleyi, director-general of the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE), to embrace integrity, accountability, and transparency in discharging his duties to fulfil the expectations of Nigerians.

In a statement on Thursday, Dele Oyewale, spokesperson for the anti-graft commission, said Mr Olukoyede gave the task when a delegation of BPE led by Mr Gbeleyi paid him a courtesy visit in Abuja.

According to him, public office is a position of trust, and Nigerian leaders should always strive to justify the confidence reposed by the people.

“By virtue of what we do and see every day, public office is a position of trust because you are appointed to serve the people. You, therefore, owe the people a high level of integrity, accountability, and transparency.

“I also want you to know that the country is looking up to you because the mandate given to you is extremely pivotal in stimulating the economy,” he said.

The EFCC boss further advised Mr Gbeleyi to review the bureau’s activities to identify the wrongs committed, correct them, and move forward properly.

Mr Olukoyede assured the BPE of EFCC’s readiness for enhanced collaboration and promised to give the bureau the support it would require in the course of carrying out its mandate.

He urged the bureau to always be forthcoming with information that the commission might require from it in the course of its investigations and prosecutions.

“On our part we are ready to collaborate with you, and if there is any area you want us to give you support, we will always be willing and ready to.

“Along the line, we will also be needing your support to give us information when it comes to investigation of some of our cases. What we are doing is in the interest of the nation,” he said.

Mr Gbeleyi disclosed that the BPE was recalibrating its ways of doing things for optimal results, efficiency, and transparency.

“For us, the future looks bright because we are revamping our processes and procedures to ensure that most of our transactions are corruption-proof.

“This is to ensure a greater level of efficiency and due diligence from the incubation of our transactions to structuring, negotiations, and foreclosure so that some of the legacy issues that we inherited will be proactively mitigated.

“So, that we will be able to contribute our modest quota to the president’s Renewed Hope Agenda, especially in the anti-corruption drive and in achieving the 1 trillion dollars GDP economy.

“So, we are here to speak on that and to introduce ourselves and seek a way to further expand the frontiers of our collaboration with the commission,” he said.

According to him, the collaboration will be in terms of the bureau’s future transactions.

(NAN)