The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the National Defence College are to partner on overhauling the college’s curriculum to reflect Nigeria’s rapidly evolving security and governance landscape.
EFCC spokesperson Dele Oyewale stated this in a press release on Monday.
Mr Oyewale said the agreement was made when the NDC commandant, Ahmed, led senior officers of the college on a courtesy visit to EFCC’s chairman, Ola Olukoyede, in Abuja.
Mr Ahmed said that the college’s curriculum needed a rejig in line with present-day realities.
He lauded the EFCC’s expertise in tackling financial and economic crimes and solicited the infusion of the skills in reviewing the NDC’s curriculum.
“In taking over the college. I have discovered that the curriculum has not been reviewed for quite some time, and I feel that it should be reviewed in relation to our current realities. I feel that this agency would be of help. So, I want us to work closely in terms of what we put in the new curriculum.
”We cannot do it better than the master. We will need some insights on how to manage public funds. We want participants to learn about managing public funds.
”This is the input we want from this place and we want experts to come and talk to participants by the next course on things like that, so that any office they happen to go and take over they know exactly what to do,” he said.
Mr Ahmed also commended Olukoyede and his team for the wonderful job they are doing for the country in terms of asset recovery and in building trust for the country.
”I also advise that you should please not rest on your oars. You should continue to do your best as much as you can. If there’s any research that you want us to carry out for you as an agency, we have a centre for strategic research,” he said.
Mr Olukoyede assured the delegation of EFCC’s preparedness to work with the college to enable it to achieve greater heights.
Mr Olukoyede explained that the commission’s mandate was to fight financial crimes, but there’s always a relationship between the work you do and what we do as well.
He said there were areas of collaboration where we could find synergy and work together in the nation’s interest.
(NAN)
