The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has again urged youths to shun corruption especially cybercrimes.
It stated that the eagle eye of the commission is watching them and long arms of the law will catch up with them.
The Deputy commandant (Admin) of the EFCC Academy in Abuja, Dr. Joseph Agwiji gave the admonition when he received 75 teenagers participating in the Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society’s 10th Teenage Workshop.
He explained that “One of the most prevalent crimes committed by youths today is the cybercrime otherwise called yahoo-yahoo. The EFCC is currently prosecuting many of those youths but the shocking one was the arrest of 6 youths belonging to the same family.
“They are behind bars because of cybercrime and their parents are lobbying to get them out. Please stay away from crime because the money they make from this is short-lived. They end up in prison. Charge you mind and study to be lawyers, doctors, or any profession you want to be because crime does not pay and the long arms of the law will eventually catch up with you.”
Dr Agwiji commended Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society for exposing the teenagers to anti-corruption topics, a move he said would remain indelible in the minds of the youngsters.
He said; “The best time is to get them at this stage when they have not yet been initiated to the crimes.”
The Coordinator of the Al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society’s Teenagers Workshop, Mr. Nurudeen Adeleke told the EFCC officials that the programme was part of the Society’s project ‘EAT-HALAL”, an anti-corruption project sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.
The Eat-Halal project engages religious scholars in 8 selected states in the country providing them with knowledge of how to use their influences to reduce corruption in the country.
Mercy Chukwudiebere
