Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa has called on youths across the country to brace for leadership roles in the quest to develop the nation.
Bawa gave the charge in Sokoto where he chaired a conference on “Corruption in Nigeria: Trends and Patterns,” at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University convened by the Zero Tolerance for Corruption Club of the institution.
EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren said Bawa also charged the youths to be prepared to tackle the challenges confronting the nation frontally and fashion ways of doing things differently, so as to achieve more positive results.
He said: “As young people concerned about the future of their country, what is paramount for us now is not to continue whining about the enormity of the challenge of economic and financial crimes but come to a deliberate realization that things must be done differently.
“The onus is on you as the critical demographic that will take the leadership of this nation in a few years’ time, to engage in the efforts to free our country from the stranglehold of economic and financial crimes.”
Uwujaren, who represented Bawa at the function said the EFCC boss cautioned youths against corrupt practices, stressing that, corruption is the “most depressing problem and threat to development in any nation, a deliberate perversion of established rules and negation of accepted standards of behaviour in any society and deviating from rules of honesty, integrity and transparency”.
He charged members of the club to emulate ” Sheikh Usmanu Danfodio after whom the institution is named in aversion for corrupt practices and sticking to the values of honesty, integrity, and accountable leadership.”
