Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- The announcement by the presidency of Abdulrasheed Bawa as the chairman-designate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) shocked many of his colleagues Tuesday.

The 40-year-old Mr Bawa will have to be screened and confirmed by the Senate before he steps into office as the substantive chairman of the commission.

At the EFCC's Lagos office, which Mr Bawa currently heads, detectives and other officials of the commission expressed slightly divergent views on the appointment, with some expressing joy that a "workaholic" who pushed staff beyond their limits would now have his attention diverted to other places, while others expressed sadness that a reformer who "transformed" the Lagos office would now have ...