The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has warned Nigerians against corrupt practices, saying that if it was not timely stopped, the poor citizens would revolt violently.
Lamorde, who spoke through his representative, Mr. Osita Nwaja, in Owerri, the Imo State capital, during a one-day sensitisation workshop organised by the commission, noted that there is corruption in every sector of Nigeria’s economy and that it had relegated the country in the comity of nations.
He also noted that the act had caused doom for the country, adding that it has retarded human, social, political, and the economic development of the country.
“If the educational sector is corrupt, it can never produce qualified graduates who can favourably compete with their contemporaries anywhere in the world,” he added.
Presenting a paper titled, “How Women Organisations can aid in fight against Corruption, Economic and Financial Crimes,” Lamorde said that women could play a critical role in the fight against the practice.
He described women as managers of homes and could help curb corruption by inculcating good virtues in their children from early ages.
The EFCC boss added that the active participation of women in anti-graft activities would add additional inputs in the collective efforts to reduce and kill the ‘cankerworm’ in Nigerian.
Earlier in his address, the Coordinator of African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, Mr. Chidi Onumah, posited that the group was dedicated to media and information literacy training, research and advocacy, maintaining that such knowledge or intelligence would assist in winning the war against grafts in Africa, particularly Nigeria.
While presenting on “The Role of Women In The Anti-Economic and Financial Crimes Crusade,” various resource persons, including the Head of Reorientation, EFCC, Aisha Musa, and Mrs. Mma Olebara, the duo urged women, the media and civil society organisations to continue to play vital roles in the fight against corruption by exposing it and those who indulge in it, no matter how highly- or lowly-placed they are in the country.
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