Leadership Training Centre Seeks EFCC’s Collaboration on Value Orientation

Leadership Training Centre Seeks EFCC’s Collaboration on Value Orientation

Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre, an agency of the Ministry of Youth Development has sought an enhanced partnership and collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in the pursuit of its leadership and citizens’ value orientation.

The request was made in Abuja on Thursday, August 1, 2024 when the management team of the Centre, led by its Director General, Adesoji Eniade paid a courtesy visit to the EFCC’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Ola Olukoyede at the Commission’s corporate headquarters.
Eniade who noted that the Centre and the EFCC had an organizational collaboration which has seen to the training of the Commission’s cadets in its Shere Hills Institute in Jos, Plateau State, appealed for the enhancement and sustenance of the collaboration towards equipping the Commission’s young officers with requisite leadership values and orientation.

“The purpose of the visit is to seek organizational collaboration with the EFCC. Last year, we had about 400 EFCC cadets in our school, Shere Hills in Jos and we want it to be a tradition. The idea is that they are the future of this organization and should be exposed to some critical training in citizenship and leadership. When you look at nations’ development, two critical things are involved, leadership and citizenship. Our institution is out there to start building the youth population,” he said.

Eniade further sought for a value reorientation training for cybercrime convicts, in order to make them better and more productive citizens after their jail time. “After they may have served their punishment, they should be made to pass through our institution for training on value reorientation so that they would know why they should be good and productive citizens,” he said.

Olukoyede, in his response, thanked the delegation for the visit. He appreciated the Centre for its roles in value reorientation for the society and promised enhanced collaboration between the two agencies of government.

“I want to promise that we are going to strengthen the relationship and collaboration and take it to the next level. I also want to thank you for all that you are doing to promote a good value system and culture in the citizenry. Our value system needs radical improvement. That culture that some of us grew up with in the 70s has broken down completely and that is why we are battling with these crises, particularly in our mandate to fight corruption.

“I share your sentiments and concerns and also want to assure you that we are going to work together. We have so many areas where we can collaborate. I agree with you that we need to reinforce our organizational collaboration in the area of training of our cadets. Whatever we have put in place for mutual benefits that is no longer working the way it should, we will revisit it,” he said.

While the Chairman noted that value orientation was important to the Commission, for which reason, he said, the EFCC under his leadership has embarked on setting up a Cybercrime Research Centre in its Academy that would take in a good number of cybercrime ex-convicts for the purpose of reorienting them and adding value to their lives, he stated that approval for the Centre’s request for reorientation training of ex-convicts was outside the remit of the Commission.

“Your request for approval for reorientation training of convicted cyber criminals is beyond us and not within our mandate, even though I have taken it up as a policy thing, because I have said it that we are trying to put together a Cybercrime Research Centre in our Academy that would accommodate quite a number of them in their hundreds where we would reorient them and see how we can add value to their lives.

“We are working on that, even though it is not strictly within our mandate, but it is not what we cannot take up. We do the prosecution and get the conviction. And when we get the conviction, that is the end of our responsibility but we are going to support that. So, I suggest that you also take up the issue with the leadership of the Custodial Services. They are the ones that come up with programmes of reorientation of ex-convicts. Maybe your Centre, the Custodial Services and the EFCC can have a collaboration on the training,” he said.