Press Release
As part
of its plan of engaging workers in both the public and private sectors to
embrace the fight against economic and financial crimes and all forms of
corruption, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday,
February 11, 2015 organized a one day interactive session for Committee
Secretariat Staff of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme,
SURE-P.
In his
keynote address, Ibrahim Lamorde, chairman of the EFCC who was represented by
Osita Nwajah, deputy director, Public Affairs, said the essence of the
programme was to “take the anti-graft campaign to the workplace and encourage
workers to have a buy-in, as the EFCC alone cannot fight and win the war
against corruption in Nigeria.”
Lamorde
commended the chairman of the SURE- P, General Martin Luther Agwai
(retd) for accepting to partner with the EFCC in the fight against the
social malaise. ”This partnership will go a long way to show that the Subsidy
Reinvestment & Empowerment Programme, SURE-P is a key player in the fight
against corruption with zero tolerance for corruption particularly in the
manner in which it has been designed to reinvest the ‘savings’ accrued from the
fuel subsidy reduction, on vulnerable population in Nigeria by initiating giant
social safety net programmes,” he said.
In his
remarks, General Agwai commended the EFCC for the initiative. He challenged the
staff to key into the fight against graft as SURE-P was built on probity,
transparency and accountability. “Be transparent, be honest, reduce bureaucracy
and we shall be more effective and efficient” he said.
Hajia
Aisha Larai Musa, head, Enlightenment and Reorientation Unit, in her paper, EFCC
and its Preventive Strategies, led the audience through the activities of
the EFCC in last eleven years and its effort in curbing economic and financial
crimes.
Felicia Bot-Timothy, of the Enlightenment and Reorientation Unit, in
her paper, Corruption, Economic and Financial Crimes and Work Place Ethics –
X Raying Sure-P urged the staff of Sure-P to bring the fight against graft
to their work place by embracing healthy work ethics, transparency and
accountability.
Auta
Yakubu desk officer, Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit, SURE-P, said the
interactive session was educative and refreshing. “It has been an enlightening
programme, it will make people to be more careful,” he said. His views tallies
with that of Dr. H. K. Suleman, head of administration of Sure-P, who said
staff of the agency have become better educated on the works of EFCC.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
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