The Chairman of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the anti-graft company has plans to rehabilitate convicted web fraudsters with lesser sentences.
In response to a press release by the fee on Friday, Olukoyede spoke on Thursday when a delegation of the Nationwide Affiliation of College College students led by its President, Obadi Marshal, paid him a courtesy go to in Abuja.
The EFCC boss famous that the rehabilitation could be a potent method of reorienting the minds of the convicts and redirecting their productive energies to optimistic endeavours.
Olukoyede stated, “We now have a plan to rehabilitate convicted web fraudsters with lesser sentences. The plan is to work with the correctional centre to make them helpful and extra productive in society.”
He cautioned youths in opposition to indulging in web crimes, stressing that the implications of such an act are grave.
He additionally cautioned college students in opposition to forming parallel organisations to pursue related pursuits.
The EFCC boss added, “If you assume deeply, that tag ‘ex-convict’ isn’t an excellent factor. You may by no means inform the place you will see your self tomorrow, and they’re going to wish to profile you and uncover that you’re an ex-convict.
“So, it’s even within the curiosity of the youth that the EFCC is doing what it’s doing to forestall them from indulging within the heinous act of cybercrime.
“The difficulty of dichotomies of associations is disturbing. Regulate yourselves and the society will take you extra significantly.”
Talking earlier, Marshal stated the go to was to construct synergy with the EFCC in its struggle in opposition to cybercrimes throughout Nigerian college campuses.
“The intention of our go to as we speak is to see how we are able to synergize and companion with the EFCC in eradicating cybercrime in all the upper establishments of studying within the nation,” he stated.
“NAUS has by no means been a part of it and can by no means assist it, that’s the reason we’re on the EFCC to see how we are able to collaborate to finish it. The onus is on us all to avoid wasting our youths from collaborating in it and to avoid wasting our nation.”
