Following the suspension of Rasheed Bawa as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Rasheed Bawa, Abdulkarim Chukkol has taken over the anti-graft agency.

Bawa was suspended by President Bola Tinubu and was directed to immediately hand over the affairs of his office to the agency’s Director of Operations, Abdulkarim Chukkol.

Chukkol will oversee the affairs of the office of the EFCC Chairman until further instructions from the presidency.

President Tinubu, on Wednesday, June 14, suspended the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, AbdulRasheed Bawa over weighty allegations of abuse of office.

The suspension, according to a statement, by the office of the SGF, is to allow for a proper investigation into his conduct while in office following some weighty allegations of abuse of office levelled against him by some stakeholders in the anti-corruption fight.