* Ekweremadu 
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Wednesday  dissociated itself from  the purported decoration, of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, as 

 “Anti-Corruption Ambassador” carried out by the Commission's National Assembly Liaison Officer, one Suleiman Bakari.

 The Commission argued that 'the award and title are unknown to the EFCC and could not have been invested as purported'. It further described Bakari's action as  

 'highly unprofessional' and  another manifestation of ‘Corruption Fighting Back’ and maintained that he acted entirely on his own and clearly outside his liaison 

 officer brief as he was never instructed by the Acting Chairman nor mandated by the management and staff of the Commission to decorate Ekweremadu or any officer of the 

 National Assembly as ‘Anti- Corruption Ambassador’.

 The Commission also  added that the manisfestation of 'Corruption Fighting Back’ as manifested by Bakari had been foreshadowed in recent weeks by other questionable 

 acts. 

  EFCC's Head, Media & Publicity Wilson Uwujaren stressed that  throughout last week, some courts "issued a string of anti-EFCC rulings looking like calculated attempts 

 to derail the anti-corruption war, even as there were indications of the capture of a prominent section of the media by dark forces. 

 "The picture of organized corruption marshaling its evil forces to launch a sustained fight-back becomes clearer, if cognizance is taken of the bewildering insistence 

 of the Senate to carry on with the ill-advised amendment of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal Act as well as the inexplicable provisions proposed 

 for amendment of the Anti-Money Laundering Act"

 Uwujaren affirmed  that the statutory mandate of the EFCC is the investigation and prosecution of all economic and financial crimes cases, which does not include 

 phoney decoration of any individual as “Anti-corruption Ambassador”. That award and title are unknown to the EFCC and could not have been invested as purported, on 

 behalf of the Acting Chairman, Management and staff of the EFCC.

 Asserting that  the Commission is not in the habit of awarding titles to individuals or to massaging inflated sense of certain individuals, the EFCC urged  the public and stakeholders in the fight against corruption are to disregard the so-called decoration.