The Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged college students throughout the nation to imbibe the virtues of transparency, accountability and integrity.
Olukoyede additionally admonished youthful folks to shun all types of corruption, financial and monetary crimes.
The EFCC boss gave the cost whereas addressing the scholars of Epitome Mannequin Islamic College at its twelfth youngsters workshop organised by Alhabibiyah Islamic Society for youngsters with concentrate on positioning the youth on the trail of anti-corruption life-style.
Spokesperson of the anti-graft company, Dele Oyewale, who said this in a press release, mentioned Olukoyede who was represented by the Head, Enlightenment and Reorientation, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Aisha Mohammed said that transparency revolved round accountability, duty, openness and honesty.
In response to him, “You’ll be able to say transparency is being open and trustworthy. Accountability is the willingness to account for one’s actions, whereas integrity is the standard of being pushed by excessive ethical rules.
“Accountability ensures that people and establishments take duty for his or her actions, it promotes answerability and explanations for selections and behaviours. Within the EFCC we are saying, integrity is doing the suitable factor even when nobody is watching you,” Olukoyede mentioned.
Whereas charging the scholars to stay away from monetary vices, the EFCC boss defined that the enterprise of the company was to analyze and prosecute circumstances of corruption, financial and monetary crimes in addition to stopping them from even occurring. “That’s the reason we have now come to speak to you proper now to make sure that you stay away from corruption,” he mentioned.
Additionally talking, Chief Superintendent of EFCC, Katerine Okeke urged the scholars to hitch fingers with the fee within the anti-corruption combat to make Nigeria a greater place for all.
“We’ve got to make Nigeria higher; that’s the message that we dropped at your faculty this morning; the message of anti-corruption combat, transparency, accountability and integrity, essential to make you develop into good residents of the nation,” she mentioned.
Talking on behalf of the administration of the varsity, Hajiya Rafat Salami thanked the EFCC for the engagement with the scholars and the nice working relationship the varsity has with the Fee.
