Director General of the National Orientation Agency, NOA,
Mallam Lanre Issa – Onilu has said that his Agency will work closely with the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its crusade against economic and financial crimes.
He gave the assurance on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at a
Two-Day Stakeholder’s Retreat on re-engineering NOA programmes for more
effective reorientation of Nigerians towards addressing challenges posed by
“Crime, Lawlessness, Health Facility Inaccessibility, Environmental
degradation, Educational Setback and Deprivation, Abuse of all forms and
Narcotics, CLHEEAN.
Issa-Onilu commended the fighting spirit of the EFCC
Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, against economic and financial crimes, pointing out
that, “NOA’s main objective is to ensure that government’s programs and
policies are well communicated for better understanding by the general public”.
“Under my leadership, we at the Agency will utilize our
facilities, our human resources to achieve government objectives. We would act
as a megaphone to take the message of the government to the expected
recipients.
The menace of internet fraud and corruption generally is a
big minus to the image of the country, we shall work very closely with the EFCC
to achieve results, to a very reasonable extent, because a corruption- free
society is achievable”, he said.
Issa-Onilu also disclosed that his Agency has
good presence in the 36 states of the federation including the Federal
Capital Territory, FCT and the 774 Local Government Offices across the country,
stressing that “no other agency is better positioned to effectively partner
with the EFCC in the fight against economic and financial crimes.”
“The menace of cybercrime is very worrisome. As parents, we
must be concerned about the future of our children. We must re-orient their
psyche because they are our children. We are not going to turn blind eyes to
what they are doing. Statistics have shown that thousands of these youths have
been convicted for internet- related offences in recent years. We cannot
continue like that”, he said.
While harping on the need for collaboration, he explained
that, “we must concertedly put on our thinking caps to see how we can save the
youths, we must redirect them to the right path, promote patriotism, national
unity, and the development of Nigerian society.
There is no compromise when it comes to tackling corruption.
To achieve the Nigeria of our dream, we must work together with the EFCC to
fight crimes”.
Speaking on the 2-Day retreat, the DG says that NOA is
re-evaluating its strategies for carrying out its important assignment of
sensitization, publicizing and re-orienting the public.
“In this regard, the NOA is building strategies around a
holistic approach which will emplace an overarching theme under which all the
various programmes being run under the Agency’s platforms will be carried out.
This overarching theme is tagged: CLHEEAN, an acronym that provides an umbrella
under which the various thematic interventions of the Agency will be carried
out across the communities in the country”, he said.
Source: EFCC
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