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BREAKING: Member of presidential committee, Femi Odekunle dies of COVID-19

Femi Odekunle, a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), is dead.

Report says Odekunle, who is also a professor, died at the COVID-19 isolation center in Gwagalada, Abuja, on Tuesday evening.

PACAC is headed by Itse Sagay, a professor of law.

The committee was established in August 2015, with the mandate to promote the reform agenda of the government on the anti-corruption effort, and to advise the present administration in the prosecution of the war against corruption and the implementation of required reforms in Nigeria’s criminal justice system.

PACAC is supported by a 7-member Technical Committee.

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