The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have organized a day Awareness Walk Against Youth Corruption Tendencies in Ekiti State.
The campaign according to the bodies was to sensitise youths in the state against participating in any corrupt activity.
Leading the sensitisation programme in Ado Ekiti on Friday, the Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Juliet Odogu, disclosed that it is imperative for youths in Ekiti State and the country as a whole to shun all activities relating to corruption.
Odogu, while counseling the youth, described corruption as a cankerworm, urging them to choose hard work instead of taking easy routes to success.
She implored youths to join hands with the anti graft body to end corruption in its totality, noting that fight against corruption is not EFCC’s responsibility alone.
Also speaking, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Ekiti State Coordinator, Mrs. Okpongete Emmanuella, who was represented by Mrs. Helen Fagbemi, the Assistant Director, Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development, said that the NYSC has zero tolerance for corruption.
According to her, “what the NYSC intends to achieve in collaboration with the EFCC by engaging in the walk was to actually tell the populace to join hands with them to be vanguards of anti corruption war in the state.
“The EFCC alone cannot reach the nooks and crannies of the country, but because we have our corps members everywhere across the country, we have to support the EFCC to fight against corruption. The issue of fight against corruption is a collective responsibility. It’s not for EFCC or NYSC.”
Packaged by Emmanuel Adeniran, Ado-Ekiti
