The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Teachers Continuous Training Institute, TCTI, Biase, Cross Rivers State have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU on digital skills provision for Nigerian youths.
The document was signed when TCTI Director General, Professor Taoheed Adedoja led the management team of the Institute on a courtesy visit to EFCC’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Ola Olukoyede at the Commission’s corporate headquarters in Abuja.
Olukoyede, while noting that the MoU aligned with the preventive mandate of the Commission in the fight against corruption, economic and financial crimes also observed that collaboration and integration of youths were critical for success in the anti-corruption fight.
“No single agency can do this work alone. The issue of reorienting our suspects does not strictly fall within our mandate.
“Our mandate is to investigate and prosecute, but we can also find a place for it and that was what came to my mind when this proposal came up. We can make it part of our preventive menu and that is where we see it as part of our responsibility and a need for us to have a synergy with the Institute.
“This MOU is something that we can work with. We are going to immediately operationalize the provisions of it,” he said.
Mr. Olukoyede who noted that it would be difficult to reform or reorientate idle youths, stated that “It is when they have basic skills that you can ask them to engage in productive activities.
He admonished the youth to stay off internet fraud, saying, Crime does not pay.
In his remarks, Professor Adedoja disclosed that the purpose of the TCTI intervention was to provide digital skill literacy for the Nigerian youth.
The TCTI boss further stated that the collaboration between the EFCC and TCTI would also provide Nigerian youths with psychological support and rehabilitation.
“We will also be providing some psychological support and rehabilitation. Nigerians will now see EFCC from a more positive point of view of providing intervention for Nigerian youths,” he said.
