The Rector, Citi Polytechnic, Simeon Barinyima Nwate has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to assist his institution in the areas of youth empowerment and manpower development. He made the appeal on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, during a courtesy visit to the EFCC Academy at Karu, Abuja.
According to Nwate who was accompanied by the Registrar, Braimoh Charles, the Librarian, John Dennis and the Director Programmes, Ogwuche Emmanuel, “every year we usually hold a seminar and we want to plead with the EFCC to come and talk to our Students on the vices that are dangerous. We want it to come from the horse’s mouth which is you, the EFCC. We are also hoping that officials of the EFCC periodically visits our school to educate our students on any other key subjects and topics that the EFCC deems fit.”
The Commandant EFCC Academy, Commander of the EFCC, Ayo Olowonihi who spoke through the Deputy Commandant, Training, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Babashani Umar Sanda assured of the Academy’s willingness to partner with critical stakeholders in its areas of competence.
“The Commission have programmes for sensitization of youths, students and pupils on regular excursion to the EFCC Academy as well as various training packages which also includes personal development training for Middle Managers, Emotional Intelligence, Training of Trainers during which we can show your lecturers how to adopt the Students Centered Problem Solving (SCPS) training methodology which is proving to be better than the conventional lecture methodology of training,”Olowonihi said.
In her remark, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Chidimma Amanambu, Head Media, EFCC Academy, said the Commission was working with various institutions of learning in sensitizing the youth and children on the ills of corruption, cybercrime and other social vices through the Zero Tolerance and Integrity Clubs.
