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Our Team
Akinbode OLUWAFEMI
Executive Director
Akinbode OLUWAFEMI
Position: Executive Director
Akinbode Matthew Oluwafemi, CAPPA has over two decades of experience in grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and building strong coalitions. He was the Deputy Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA) — Nigeria’s foremost environmental rights advocacy group. Oluwafemi heads ERA/FoENs Tobacco Control and Water Campaign.
Oluwafemi has been involved at various capacities in tobacco control initiatives in the African region. He heads Our Water, Our Right coalition which has been campaigning to prevent the privatization of water in Lagos and helps build the movement for public water in Africa He is a winner of the Bloomberg Award for Global Tobacco Control. Before joining ERA/FoEN, he was a journalist with The Guardian, Nigeria & a leading national newspaper. As a journalist, he participated actively in the press freedom struggles during the despotic rule of the late General Sani Abacha.
Oluwafemi is on the board of several national and international non-profit organisations.
Philip JAKPOR
Director of Programmes
Philip JAKPOR
As a young journalist PHILIP JAKPOR was passionate about investigating and reporting abuses that corporations preferred to hide. His unquenchable zeal to expose corporations and injustices garnered new fire in the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) where he worked with a team of committed activists and grassroots movements demanding that Shell and other oil multinationals be held accountable for the environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region. Jakpor deployed his media expertise in the advocacy work that culminated in Nigeria’s domestication of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2015 and is still involved in the exposure of the tobacco industry’s unrelenting activities aimed at thwarting enforcement of lifesaving public health laws.
Though he left the newsroom in 2007, between 2010 and 2015 he trained and helped birth the Journalist Initiative for sustainable Environment (JISE) – a network of over 250 journalists across Nigeria that now actively unearth and report environmental injustices. He continues to groom young journalists and deploys his expertise in helping organisations form workable and effective media strategies.
Jakpor brings his decade and half experience in environmental activism and development to the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) family.
Aderonke IGE
Associate Director
Aderonke IGE
Position: Associate Director
Aderonke is a humanitarian lawyer and development expert. Born during the military regime in Nigeria, with early childhood experiences of oppression, exclusion and first-hand brazen violations of Human Rights, she knew from then that she would fight for opposite realities and engage actively in the defence of human rights and public interests. She has since been actively engaged as a development practitioner and social impact crusader for the past 10 years.
With visible passion for subject matters of Good governance, participatory Development, Inclusion and Human Rights, she undertakes Public Interest advocacies, while connecting campaigns on cross-cutting issues with awareness building. Prior to her CAPPA journey, she had championed legislative advocacies that led to the enactment of Community Service Law in Oyo state, Nigeria, as a direct criminal Justice reform intervention, Land grabbing criminalization and other public interest legislation between 2015 & 2017, during her years of work at Justice Development and Peace Commission.
At Corporate Accountability & Public Participation Africa, she carries out policy advocacy, while being a team player in organizing, movement building, community engagements and campaigns for environmental justice, human rights and resistance building against oppressive policies of Government. She works directly on Water campaign and climate justice program.
Olatunji BUHARI
Associate Director
Olatunji BUHARI
Position: Associate Director
His journey into development work was borne out of aspiration for knowledge. Along the line, his interest into environmental and human rights activism grew when he stumbled on a book titled “Where Vultures Feast”: SHELL, Human Rights , and Oil in the Niger Delta written by Dr. Ike Okonta and Late Oronto Douglas. On completion of the book that documented the atrocities of the multinational corporations in the Niger Delta, he was curious to know why the oil majors continue to engage in activities that destroys the means and livelihood of the communities people in the Niger Delta.
In 2014, he joined the Our Water Our Right Campaign team of the Environmental Rights Action demanding the Lagos state government recognize human right to water and jettison the idea of water privatization. He has written several articles on anti-water privatization published in the national dailies.
Sarah EKWALE LLB, BL
HR/Administrative Manager
Sarah EKWALE LLB, BL
Position: HR, Administrative Manager
Ekwale Sarah Ochuko is a seasoned Legal and HR Professional, called to the Nigerian Bar in 2009 and has applied her lawyering and administrative skills across various sectors particularly in general Corporate Practice, Employee Relations, Compliance, Regulatory Matters, Administration and Procurement. amongst others.
She is currently the HR/Administrative Manager at CAPPA Africa. She has worked with reputable law firms and real estate institutions which includes being a one time Company Secretary and HR Administrator for Vines Realty. Apart from her personal career goals, Sarah is a service oriented person and in this regard have taken up various social developmental projects. She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, student member of the Institutes of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria. A team player who partners with external and internal stakeholders and proffers win-win solutions to all.
Babatope ADEBAYO
Finance and Accounts Manager
Babatope ADEBAYO
Position: Finance and Accounts Manager
Babatope ADEBAYO is versatile chartered accountant with a demonstrated history of working in the accounting and finance industry.
His track record in strategic thinking, Budget preparation, analysis and implementation, business process value engineering and cost savings as well as his capacity to shift gears easily, leading through chaos, integrating best financial and accounts managing practices, identifying opportunities for growth and tightening areas of risk are part of what sets Babatope apart.
He joined Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) as the Finance and Accounts Manager and is responsible for CAPPA’s implementation of effective financial controls, finance reporting to donors, financial management, budgeting and budgetary control, processing of all receipts and expenditure, and financial reporting to the management and members of the board.
Prior to joining CAPPA, Babatope worked for Swift Networks Limited as the Enterprise Risk IT Auditor, where he gained insight and experience in reviewing departmental internal processes and was able to establish a cost savings and revenue maximization for business process value engineering.
Babatope received a First class bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from Osun State University with an M.Sc (in lieu) in Accounting from the University of Lagos.
He is an Associate Chartered Accountant licensed with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), a Member of the Accountancy Bodies of West Africa (ABWA), and a Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Loan and Risk Management (CILRM). He is currently a student member of Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) with one certified course.
Abayomi SARUMI
Digital Campaign Manager
Abayomi Tajudeen SARUMI
Position: Digital Campaign Manager
Abayomi Tajudeen Sarumi is a Communications Expert who has used his expertise in social campaigns, policy advocacy and governance in Nigeria and West Africa sub-region. He worked on public health campaigns with UNICEF Nigeria, State ministries of Health; youth development/inclusion projects with Voluntary Service Overseas, Milky Way Global Youth Movement and ENACTUS among others.
Trained by Google Nigeria as a Digital Business Manager and Facebook Nigeria as a BYB trainer, Abayomi’s competences include social media management, content creation, analytics, online dissemination of publication and materials, graphics design, copy writing, newsletters design, behavioural change communications and communications for development.
Olamide OGUNLADE
Programme Manager
Olamide Martins OGUNLADE
Position: Programme Manager
Ogunlade Olamide Martins is a social advocate and development enthusiast. With over six years’ experience in the social space, he has built capacity in social research, baseline analysis, policy advocacy, impact assessment, environmental governance, and climate change. Originally trained as a geologist in the University, his passion for social work influenced his career choice. He is a course graduate of the University of Washington Leadership and Management in Health LMIH 2017 and a certified facilitator from the same institution.
Olamide Martins was once the watershed consultant to the World-Bank Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) in Ekiti State and have also managed projects supported by National Democratic Institute (NDI), UKAid, USAid, Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), African Women Development Fund (AWDF) among others successfully.
He is a He4She Champion, an award given to him by Ekiti State Government in 2020 in recognition of his contribution to gender justice and women socio-political emancipation.
At CAPPA he is a team player. He adds his voice to challenge and halt corporate abuse especially as it relates to climate change and the extractives. He engages relevant documents and make inclusive recommendations for policy review.
Veronica NWANYA
Project Officer
Veronica NWANYA
Position: Project Officer
Veronica Nwanya is the coordinator of the African Women , Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Network (AWASHNET)- a women advocacy network mobilizing women communities to resist water privatization across the continent. Veronica had over a decade working experience with the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN). While in ERA/FoEN she got involved in tobacco control campaigns and in mobilizing women voices in oil communities the Niger Delta and Badagry in Lagos.
Nwanya is the Author of Litigation As An Effective Tool To Combat Tobacco Use Among Youths: Litigation; A Tool to Stop Tobacco Use, a 60-page book published in 2011
Zikora IBEH
Policy & Research Officer
Zikora Ibeh
Position: Policy and Research Officer
Zikora Ibeh is a researcher, content creator, program manager and aspiring techie with years of experience in the non-profit sector. She is particularly passionate about the struggle for social justice, and open civic space. She works to make a difference through social and public policy advocacy, action research, and digital influencing. She holds a Degree in Economics Education from the University of Ibadan, is a fellow of the Teacher Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) and has published her research papers, articles and works in newspapers, academic and professional journals.
An avid reader and passionate writer, Zikora is no doubt a leading voice of the new generation of young people in Nigeria who are striving to be heard.
