Nigerian students have a major role to play in the country’s fight against corruption, according to the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa.
Bawa said this while receiving members of the Zero Tolerance for Corruption, Ahmadu Bello University and Zaria who paid him a courtesy visit at the corporate headquarters of the EFCC.
“Students, especially Nigerian students are very powerful, you mould yourself into what you are going to become from the university,” Bawa said.
The EFCC chairman, who was represented by secretary to the EFCC, Dr. George Ekpungu, said the role of students in the fight against corruption is very important, both to the students themselves as much as to the entire youth in Nigeria.
“If students and the youths stand up against the vices of corruption, economic and financial crimes, we could achieve a hundred percent in terms of development and wellbeing for Nigerians,” he said.
Bawa admitted that the task of fighting corruption was though but rewarding, urging youths to offer their best shots in embracing integrity and accountable conduct.
“We have to determine what we want to be, we are sitting on a very difficult national assignment but like all of you have come to appreciate we are doing our best, it is not easy,” he stated.
He also called on students and other youths to stand shoulder to shoulder with the EFCC as representatives of the Commission.
“You fight with the Commission, you fight for the Commission, when you hear EFCC being mentioned in wrong terms, the Zero Tolerance Club should be able to come out and say “No, they are doing this and that”.
“This is what this synergy is, so that you know what we are doing.”
He also pointed out that the only way Nigeria can achieve its full potential is when every citizen of the country shuns the vice of corruption, economic and financial crimes.
