UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN TO PARTNER CRIMES COMMISSION IN FIGHTING CRIMES

The Vice Chancellor, while describing the commission’s mandate of waging war against all forms of economic and financial crimes as a difficult national assignment, prof Olayinka noted that the nation’s foremost anti-graft agency deserves the support of everyone.

Hear him ‘worried by the rising cases of involvement of young undergraduates in financial crimes, the EFCC had written to seek partnership with the premier university in mapping out strategies to stem the trend’.

Penpushing further reports that, he explained further that in recent times, the commission had secured arrests and convictions of a number of young men involving in financial crimes of different kinds, adding that most of them, according to records, are either undergraduates or fresh graduates of higher institutions of learning.

“The nature of arrests and convictions our commission secures in recent times, in which a large number of culprits are youth who are supposedly our hope and future as a nation, has made it more pressing for us to engage our higher institutions of learning in thinking out strategies to stem the disturbing trend”.

“As the premier university of our dear country, we believe it will be of great significance to start this campaign with a visit to the leadership of this leading ivory tower,” the commission stated in a letter written to the university to initiate the partnership”.

The Zonal Head of the commission  told the university management that the time has come for the agency to foster strategic partnership with major stakeholders in the management of youths with a view to dissuade them from going into crimes, adding that higher institutions’ administrations have critical roles to play.

Penpushing also reports that, Ebolo requested the university to avail the commission the avenue to meet with the students of the institution to educate them on the dire consequences of crime and criminal activities on the lives of the perpetrators and the nation as an entity.

The Vice Chancellor while  responding to the demand, described the two institutions as brothers, having been designated as agencies of the Federal Government,stating that, “We are brothers. We are both agencies of the federal government created to carry out special functions for the growth and smooth running of our dear nation,”

The Professor of Geology also announced that the University will give the commission a slot in its radio station, Diamond 101.1 FM, in which the commission would educate the University community on its mandate and educate them on issues bothering on economic and financial crimes and the consequences.

Penpushing also reports that, the Vice Chancellor added that the University will create a space for the commission in its forthcoming orientation programmes for the new intakes and see to how this will be a permanent feature in the annual exercise.