NIGERIAN YOUTHS ARE CRITICAL INSTRUMENT IN RESCUEING NIGERIA FROM CORRUPTION – MAGU

Segun Showunmibin Ibadan

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has disclosed that Nigerian youth are the most critical instruments in rescuing the country from the depressive effect of corruption.

Penpushing reports that Magu made this disclosure on Wednesday during a visit to Chief Adebayo Akande. in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital. Explaining  that the commission;s recognition of the importance of the youth demography to the development of the country informed its decision to centre the forthcoming 10-million-man-march against corruption around the youth.

The agency boss, represented by the Head of the Commission’s Ibadan zonal office, Friday Ebelo, said,“Ours is a growing demography with more than 50 percent of youth population. We realized that if we can harness and attune their energy to positive use, our country’s desire to be a virile nation will be easily achieved.

“We also realise that the youth are mostly both the victims and perpetrators of the type of crimes our agency fights. We believe that if we enlist them and get them fully involved in the fight, the problems around the economic and financial crimes will be solve to a reasonable level’.

“Once the youth take the leadership of the fight and apply their strength in its propagation, we are confident that the bulk of the Nigerian population will key into it and our country will be the ultimate beneficiary,” he said.

Penpushing also reports that while responding to commission’s visit, Chief Akande pledged continued support of his Radio Station Splash FM and its sister stations – Lagelu FM, Ibadan and Splash FM, Abeokuta –  in promoting the activities of the commission.

Meanwhile, the event which is slated for February 14 will has  the National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC), and many youth-based organisations across the country as partners.