The Executive Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has blamed the high rate of corruption in the country to the neglect of cultural values by citizens.
Olukoyode stated this when the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO), Otunba Biodun Ajiboye, paid him a courtesy visit to discuss inter-agency collaborations towards re-orienting Nigerians on the need to revive its cultural values as a tool to fight and eradicate corruption in the country.
The EFCC boss noted that the Commission is doing its best to curb the menace to a reasonable level, noting that one of the ways to achieve its mandate is through citizen’s cultural orientation on the high level of moral decadence and values that are completely broken.
He said: “What does not belong to you, you don’t have business with it, and if we have moral and value re-orientation of the citizenry, it will help us achieve a lot. We need to channel our efforts on crime prevention rather than recording thousands of convictions. There is also a need for us to look at the loopholes and re-orient the people.
That is where NICO comes in. We need people like you to support us by getting involved in the fight against corruption.”
