Bawa Charges Students To Join Fight Against Corruption

The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, on May 3, 2023, called on students to join the fight against economic and financial crimes to secure their future.

 He gave the charge while inaugurating the EFCC Integrity Club at Padopads Harmony Secondary School and Assembly of God Comprehensive College,in Makurdi, Benue State.

Bawa who spoke through CSE Adeniran Adebayo Samuel, Head, Public Affairs Department, Makurdi Zonal Command, reminded them that the country's future lies in their hands.

"Let Integrity speak for you, come to school at the right time, attend to your studies and be a good citizen of Nigeria," he said.

 Furthermore, Bawa urged the new executives of Integrity Club to be good ambassadors of the Commission.  "Do not say, yes, when you need to say, no, and be an agent of change anywhere you find yourself", he declared.

 Reginal Ahura, the Principal of Padopads Harmony Secondary School, while encouraging her students said "corruption rubs us of many things that are important, do the right thing at the right time ".

 Mrs. Ochechi, the Vice Principal of Assembly of God Comprehensive College, appreciated the works of EFCC and promised to lead the Club to do the work diligently and be ambassadors of the anti-corruption campaign.

 Forty five students took oath to be members of the Club in Padopads Harmony Secondary School while Twenty five students made a similar pledge in Assembly of God Comprehensive College.