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Ibrahim Shazali, a Deputy Chief Detective Superintendent, has been appointed as the new Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Gombe state.
Shazali, who joined the EFCC in 2004 as an admistrative staff, was the second in command of the Kano Zonal office prior to his assumption of office as Zonal Head yesterday.
He takes over from Micheal Wetkast who is on study leave.
The Head, Media & Publicity, Dele Oyewale said in Abuja on Tuesday that Shazali obtained a Bachelor of Science, (B.Sc) in Business Administration with specialisation in Actuarial Science from Ahmadu Bello University , Zaria in 1998 and later attended the first regular Cadet Training at Nigeria Police College, Ikeja, Lagos in 2005.
He also obtained a Masters Degree ìn Forensic Accounting from Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom in 2015 and in addition, attended the National Institute for Security Studies. He is now a fellow of the Institute.
At the EFCC, the new Zonal Head has served in various capacities as Team leader, Economic Governance, Lagos; Sectional Head, Banking Fraud, Abuja; Head, Procurement Fraud Section, Kano where he doubled as the Second in Command of the Zone. Before joining the Commission, Shazalli worked as a revenue accountant in the defunct Savanah Airlines Limited and as an Intern in an international human right law group.
He also attended several capacity- building seminars and training programmes on economic and financial crimes in Nigeria and abroad.
