Top Member Of Buhari's Anti-Corruption Team Dies From COVID-19
Thompson Nsisongabasi
Dec 30, 2020
Femi Odekunle, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Femi Odekunle has died from COVID-19.
AFNews reports that the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said: "A good friend of this government just passed on at 6:30pm".
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It is unclear if Mustapha was referring to Odekunle or another person but he said discussions were ongoing to help the deceased hours before news of his death broke.
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It was gathered that Odekunle, Nigeria's first professor of criminology, died at the COVID-19 isolation center in Gwagalada, Abuja, on Tuesday evening.
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Odekunle's death was later confirmed in a statement by the Executive Secretary of PACAC, Prof Sadiq Radda.
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Radda described Odekunle, 77, as "a man of excellent values and principles" who "will be seriously missed by the Committee".
The statement added, "He left behind a wife, children and siblings. The details of the burial arrangements will be made public soonest. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace."
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A graduate of the University of Ibadan, 1968, Odekunle got his PhD in sociology and social psychiatry from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in the United States, in 1974.
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Odekunle lectured in different universities but spent years at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna state.
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