Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
Ibrahim Lamorde says students and youth organizations across the country are
important ally in the anti-graft war.
Lamorde made the remark while receiving a delegation from the
National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, led by the National President,
Comrade Yinka Gbadebo, during a visit to the Commission’s headquarters, Abuja on Thursday
February 21, 2013.
While thanking the students for their visit, the EFCC boss decried
the level of corruption in public sector and the involvement of youths in
internet fraud, which he says fuels cultism and sexual harassment in the
nation’s tertiary institutions.
He commended the students’ passion for change in the country and admonished
them to be vigilante and not allow themselves be used to promote causes that
are inimical to the good of society
He further urged the students to use their offices across the
states to help EFCC by serving as whistle blowers.
Lamorde equally expressed his displeasure with the rate of
corruption in the campuses, assuring that the agency will not ignore any case
of graft that come to its knowledge in the institutions.
Earlier, Comrade Gbadebo said they were in the Commission not only
to appreciate what Lamorde and EFCC are doing but to also lend support to the
fight against economic crime and corruption.
“In as much as we appreciate the EFCC, we believe there is more
that needs to be done especially now that lots of scams are being uncovered
like the police pension, subsidy scams, among others; and in
identifying with you, we are identifying with the things you have done in the
past and present,” he said.
Gbadebo stressed his association’s willingness to support EFCC
especially in exposing corrupt practices, saying that it is the only way the
future of the nation and its teeming youths can be guaranteed.
“Forming a synergy with EFCC will go a long way in exposing a lot
of corrupt practices that are happening all over the country, most importantly
in the universities. Rectors are embezzling money; Vice Chancellors are
bringing obnoxious fees which cannot be accounted for”, he declared.
He pleaded with the EFCC to look into the issue of Post-Jamb and sundry fees being imposed on students in
tertiary institutions.
The NANS president was accompanied on the visit by a 29 - man
delegation, which included some former officials of the association.
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