Anti-corruption fight: EFCC seeks stronger ties with media, CSOs 

By Innocent Anaba

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has called a for deeper collaboration among the media, civilian nine organisations, CSOs, and the committee successful the combat against corruption and fiscal crimes.

EFCC Chairman, Mr Ola Olukoyede, who made the telephone astatine a capableness gathering store for journalists and civilian nine organisations successful Lagos, underscored the strategical value the committee attaches to the roles of journalists and civilian nine actors arsenic watchdogs of the society.

Represented by the acting Director of the commission, Mr Adebayo Adeniyi, helium said: “Their quality to inform, educate, and mobilise nationalist sentiment is simply a captious plus successful the combat against corruption, fraud, and different economical crimes.”

He noted that collaboration among anti-corruption agencies, the media, and CSOs had proven captious crossed the satellite successful promoting transparency, accountability, and bully governance, adding that specified synergy was adjacent much important successful Nigeria fixed the standard and sophistication of fiscal crimes.

The EFCC, helium said, recognises the invaluable enactment of the media and CSOs implicit the years done reporting, advocacy, and nationalist engagement, which person helped prolong nationalist consciousness connected anti-corruption efforts.

He besides disclosed that the committee launched a Specialised Workshop Series connected Economic and Financial Crimes Reporting successful 2022 to physique the capableness of journalists, and had present expanded it to see civilian nine groups to foster inclusiveness and broader civic participation.

Highlighting Lagos arsenic the commercialized nervus centre and a hotspot for economical crimes specified arsenic overseas speech scams, concern email compromise, and spot fraud, helium stressed the request for nationalist sensitisation to forestall citizens from falling unfortunate to fraudsters.

“We indispensable enactment unneurotic to intensify nationalist education. The media and CSOs indispensable stay astatine the forefront of promoting integrity and accountability.”

He emphasised that the combat against corruption should not beryllium near to the EFCC unsocial but seen arsenic a corporate nationalist duty, urging each stakeholders to exposure corrupt practices and clasp institutions accountable.

“The EFCC remains committed to gathering a stronger and much effectual concern with each stakeholders successful the combat against corruption. Together, we tin physique a Nigeria wherever integrity, accountability, and justness are not exceptions, but the norm,” helium added.

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