Cybercrime: EFCC Sensitises Students Ahead Of Integrity Club Launch in Ibadan
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has appealed to secondary school students in Oyo State not to be involved in cybercrime and to speak up whenever they see crimes being perpetrated in their schools and communities.
ACE I Halima Mustafa Rufa’u, Ag. Commander of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Commission, made the appeal recently during a pre-Integrity Club inauguration sensitization outreach to selected schools in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
According to the news release by the Media & Publicity Department, posted on the Commission’s official website, at Oluyole High School, Ibadan, Rufa’u who spoke through the Head of Public Affairs Department of the Zonal Command, DSE Egbodofo Olumide lamented the high incidence of cybercrime among the youth.
She said the Commission’s determination to arrest this trend informed the decision to establish Integrity Club in primary and secondary schools and Zero Tolerance Club in tertiary institutions as vehicles for value orientation and citizens mobilisation for corrective action against economic and financial crimes.
“The inauguration of these Clubs, without doubt will make you agents of positive change and foot soldiers to preach the sermon of anti-corruption in our society. Once the Clubs are inaugurated in your school, you are automatically ambassadors of the EFCC, and we expect you to become role models in your schools and communities”, she said.
The Zonal Commander urged the students to obey their teachers and parents to secure their future.
Similar messages were presented to the students of Baptist Secondary School, Oke-ado, Ibadan and Concord School, Ring Road, Ibadan, through the Head of the Extractive Industry Fraud Section of the Command, ACE II Olusegun Oloruntuyi and Head, Counter Terrorism and General Investigation Section, CSE Juliet Odogwu.
The EFCC/NYSC CDS Group Executives led by Iyinsioluwa Ibukun Olatinwo, a corps member serving with the legal department of the Zonal Command, also encouraged the students to do the right thing at all time.
Several items including mathematical sets, notebooks and other writing materials were given to the five best students in each class of the schools.
