JUST IN: President Tinubu appoints EFCC workers as Director of Public Prosecutions

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has authorised the appointment of Rotimi Iseoluwa Oyedepo as Director of Public Prosecutions within the Federal Ministry of Justice.

In a press release issued on Tuesday, Abiodun Oladunjoye, Director of Info and Public Relations on the State Home, mentioned the appointment adopted Oyedepo’s switch of service from the {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee (EFCC) to the mainstream Federal Civil Service.

Oyedepo is to fill the emptiness created by the approaching retirement of the outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions, Abubakar Babadoko, who is because of full the obligatory eight years in workplace on December 31, 2025.

The assertion mentioned the brand new DPP is a legislation graduate of the College of Ilorin, having accomplished his diploma in 2007 earlier than continuing to the Nigerian Regulation Faculty in 2008.

It added that Oyedepo is predicted to deploy his prosecutorial expertise to cut back the Federal Authorities’s reliance on exterior authorized counsel in delicate and high-profile instances, whereas making certain larger coherence within the authorities’s authorized methods.

Earlier than his appointment, the Oyedepo spent over 15 years on the EFCC, the place he specialised within the prosecution of advanced {economic} and {financial} crimes.

He additionally served as head of the fee’s monitoring unit and was a part of the Federal Authorities’s authorized workforce within the Course of and Industrial Improvement arbitration case.

It added that his service earned him the EFCC excellent workers of the 12 months award in 2014 and one of the best {financial} crimes prosecutor award in 2019.