Abdulrasheed Bawa (born 30 April 1980) is a Nigerian detective and law enforcement agent who served as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from 24 February 2021 to 14 June 2023 when he was suspended on by President Bola Tinubu over allegations of corruption.
[10][11] In September 2020, Peoples Gazette in an exclusive report detailed how Bawa stole and sold dozens of petrol-bearing trucks confiscated from suspected looters, auctioning them off to his proxies at ridiculous prices while he was in charge of the Port Harcourt office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
[13] On 17 February 2021, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) issued a statement denying reports that the Chairman-designate (now substantive), Abdulrasheed Bawa, was arrested and detained by the agency under former Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, over illegal sale of 244 forfeited trucks to proxies in Port Harcourt.
The statement signed by Spokesman of the commission, Wilson Ewujaren, said "Mr Bawa was never arrested or detained over sale of any assets.
[16][17] Under the Leadership of Bawa, EFCC undergone wide ranging Institutional reforms which include: 1) development of[18] twenty-six (26) Standard Operating Procedures and twenty-five (25) Policies and Manuals for the Departments, Units, and Staff of the Commission, 2) Establishment of two new Directorates, Intelligence and Procurement 3) Setting up of Tactical Operating Centre (TOC) in the Lagos Zonal Office 4) Setting up of Cyber Laboratory domiciled in the newly created Intelligence Department.
5)The launched of a mobile application designed to ease the process of reporting economic and financial crimes in the country called the Eagle Eye.
[19] These were instrumental to the success of EFCC which led the Commission secured a total of 3785 (Three Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-five) convictions across all its Commands in 2022.