The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, will on Thursday, December 7, 2016 flag off the Nigerian Women Against
Corruption, WAC, project, at the International Conference Center, Abuja with
the aim of engaging women across the country in a nationwide sustainable fight
against corruption.
According to the Acting Chairman of the EFCC,
Ibrahim Magu, the epoch-making event, which is in collaboration with the office
of the wife of the President would be flagged off by Her Excellency Hajia Aisha
Muhammadu Buhari beginning at nine o’clock in the morning.
“The choice of women is strategic, because we
believe that they are torch-bearers in the anti-corruption crusade, and it is
because of the important role they play in making the society a better place”,
Magu said.
He further added that: “The WAC project is aimed
at galvanizing Nigerian women to buy into the corruption fight and also to
raise the consciousness of the consequences of corruption in the minds of their
households.”
The WAC programme, which is coming up two days
before the 2016 International Anti-Corruption Day celebration, has Justice
Aloma Mariam Mukhtar (retd), Nigeria’s first female Chief Justice of Nigeria as
the guest speaker.
The project will further be taken to the
grassroots through the states and local governments across the country.
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