The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has inducted five students of the Premiere Academy, Abuja, into the newly-created National Anti-corruption Club.
The club is being promoted by the ICPC as part of its renewed efforts to tackle corruption from the roots.
The 30-member club, which was launched recently at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, also has 25 other student members drawn from various schools in the Federal Capital Territory and environs.
Chairman of the commission, Musa Adamu Aliyu, described the anti-corruption war as a fight to salvage the soul of the nation.
This, he said, requires systemic involvement of youths at all conceivable levels to vanquish the menace, which threatens the foundational health and future well-being of our great country.
The ICPC chair noted that the youths, especially students, which represent an important demographic and hugely powerful army, have a great role to play in the current administration’s uncompromising stance against the national malaise that has kept the country from realising its potential.
While disclosing plan to extend planting of the anti-corruption club in other regions of the country, Aliyu charged the inductees to serve as good ambassadors of the commission by decrying all forms of corruption and anti-social behaviours in their surroundings.
He also urged them to be relentless promoters of the best national values and ethics, adding that, in doing so, they would be contributing greatly to the patriotic efforts to enhance the country’s unstoppable march to positive rebirth.
The climax of the event was the presentation of banners and Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials to the inductees by the commission’s Acting Director (Public Enlightenment and Education), Azuka Ogugua, as well as the administration of membership oath by Head of Legal Unit, Umar Magaji Narimi.
