The Zamfara Circumstance Governor, Dauda Lawal, has stated he isn’t frightened of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee.
In keeping with him, society elected to positions of management will have to be responsible and clear.
He spoke on Tuesday on the Nationwide Cybercrimes Height, organised through the EFCC in collaboration with the Eu Union-funded Rule of Regulation and Anti-Corruption Programme of the World Institute for Independence and Electoral Help (World IDEA).
Lawal stated, “I am not scared of the EFCC. Why would I be scared of the EFCC? We’re here to serve, and this is the way forward. People should be accountable. People should be transparent. That is the way. That’s leadership.”
The governor, who said that he was once now not acutely aware of the swimsuit introduced through a few of his colleagues towards the EFCC, stated he was once able to offer his assistance to the fee.
He stated, “I’m listening to this for the primary hour concerning the swimsuit, and that’s the reality. So I don’t know what it accommodates. I will be able to’t touch upon that.
“However my coming right here could also be to offer my assistance to the fee, particularly at a hour like this when Nigeria is going through many damaging demanding situations matching to cybercrime.
“So this is a very good opportunity, and I believe this is the way forward so that we can redeem the image of Nigeria in the Committee of Nations. What will you do as a governor to ensure that cybercrime is eradicated? We are ready to support the EFCC.”
Talking, the Head of the Programme of the World Institute for Independence and Electoral Help (World IDEA), Danladi Plang, noticed that, as generation progresses, reliance upon it has escalated, expanding cybercrime.
“Nigeria has an excessively younger society, which is flexible within the utility of generation. This talent has been impaired negatively in numerous methods, together with virtual monetary crime. This has now not best given the rustic a sinful identify across the world but in addition poses an important blackmail to the rustic’s monetary device and will increase crimes towards folks, together with kid pornography.
“While we acknowledge the efforts made by the EFCC and other law enforcement agencies in fighting cybercrime, perhaps we need to rethink our traditional approach of arrest, trial, conviction, and imprisonment in combating crime,” Plang stated.
He added that through specializing in alternative tactics of channelling the energies of adlescent and their abilities within the utility of generation, the rustic may reinforce its cybercrime prevention and reaction mechanisms era concurrently growing extra legit alternatives for younger society.