EFCC takes anti-corruption war to schools in a Lagos ghetto

The Chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, on Monday urged Nigeria youths to be on the frontlines of the war against corruption.

Magu made the call during a town hall meeting with some students on crusade against corruption in collaboration with creative youth initiative against corruption, a Wole Soyinka art vision project.

He noted that the youths and children were more affected negatively by corruption, stressing, therefore, that the youths must rise up against corruption with their talents of dancing, singing, painting, poetry among other arts..

The Chairman represented by Lagos zonal Public Affairs Officer of the commission, Samin Amadin, noted that if creative youths did not kill corruption, corruption will kill creative in them.

''We have been reaching out to the civil society, churches, mosques, market leaders and community leaders for adults, yet there is no changes in corruption.

''We discovered that majority of Nigerians, which are the youths and children were left out of the crusade. We saw how viable creative youth initiative against corruption we decided to use   It to reach out to them.

''The youths and the children know everything happening in Nigeria. We do not want them to join the older Nigerians in corrupt practices,'' Magu said.

The Coordinator of Creative Youth Initiative against Corruption, Ms Foluke Micheal said the platform was to identify talents they could encourage to be use against corruption.

Micheal said the anti-corruption education programme was tailored to help youths and children to recognize, reject and condemn any act of corruption through education and creative art.

She said they have been using the platform to sensitize youths and children between the ages of 9 and 14 on the ills of corruption.

The Education Secretary of Badagry Local Government Area, Alhaja Aduke Adebayo urged the youths never to emulate any corrupt tendency either in school or home.

Adebayo called on the organizers to involved parents and teachers in future's meeting.

No fewer than 150 students and pupils from different schools in Badagry participated in the interactive meeting.