The Uyo Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, ACE Bawa Hamidu has charged youths across the country to fully get involved in the fight against corruption by shunning cybercrimes and all other criminal activities.

Bawa gave the charge on Thursday April 7, 2022 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State while holding a sensitization session with an Anti-Corruption youth group at the University of Uyo, Uniuyo, Community Hall.

Addressing the youths, Bawa, who spoke through the Head, Public Affairs Directorate of the Command, Chief Superintendent of the EFCC, CSE Theresa Nwosu, urged them to desist from all forms of cybercrimes and cultivate the habit of reporting perpetrators of such crimes and any other perceived criminal activity, observed around them, to the EFCC.

”Nigerian youths have great potentials but are failing to see the dark shadow that being an ex-convict casts on their future. Cybercrimes are destructive because they are capable of building barriers against the future of youths. Within a week alone, a court in Calabar convicted over 30 youths for cyber-related offences. This is not good enough. It is high time our youths stayed away from internet fraud’, she said.

The Zonal Commander identified greed and get-rich-quick syndrome as the major causes of youth involvement in cybercrimes. He warned members of the group to desist from such tendencies. He also tasked them on the need to always report suspected cases of internet fraud around them.

‘’ I believe that you’re a member of this Anti-Corruption group because you truly abhor crime and corruption, and you desire to put a stop to the trend. If that’s truly the case, then you must understand that when you see something criminal or corrupt, you are duty bound to say something so that we can all do something by fighting this hydra-headed monster to a logical standstill”, she said.

Media & Publicity
8 April, 2022