The need to engage the youth
in the anti corruption fight was
emphasized in a meeting between Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and the
acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, today
in Lagos.
He opined that such anti
corruption vanguard would build capacity for youth to become change agents and
actively participate in determining a saner society.
Soyinka gave the suggestion
while reviewing the Creative Youth Initiative against Corruption (CYIAC)
project, a collaborative initiative between the EFCC and Professor Wole
Soyinka's Child Art Project in Nigeria, tailored towards employing art as
creative vehicle to express ideas and feelings by children and youth. The
project seeks to identify young talents with vision for a corruption free
society, and inculcate in them values of integrity, honesty and accountability
through art forms - poetry, dance, drama, visual arts and essay writing.
Magu, while acknowledging the
importance of art and its viability as a communication instrument, thanked the
Nobel Laureate for his passion and contribution to the anti corruption fight
through the Art Initiative which is in consonance with the Commission's
corruption prevention mandate.
Wole Soyinka was thereafter decorated with the EFCC lapel, in appreciation of his anti corruption and integrity stance.
Wole Soyinka was thereafter decorated with the EFCC lapel, in appreciation of his anti corruption and integrity stance.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
27
th October, 2016
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