President of Nigeria Statistical Association Calls On Sectors To Emulate EFCC partnership.
The National President of Nigeria Statistical Association Dr. Goddy Ebuh, has called on all relevant sectors in the country to embrace and identify with the association, owing to their advocacy status which is geared towards developing the nation in all ramifications.
The president who made the assertion in a press conference to mark the opening ceremony of the association’s annual conference tagged”Security Challenges and Its Associated Consequences” held in Keffi Hotel, Nasarawa State on Wednesday, also said The Economy and Financial Crime Commission EFCC amongst other agencies are collaborating with them meaningfully.
” I want to use this opportunity and call on all sectors in the country to embrace and identify with us because statistics is all about facts and figures. We want to look at the dynamism about security challenges and it’s associated consequences cut across all sectors including economy, health, education and financial sectors.
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“Our role in the fight against corruption is not to expose offenders, if you go to such places like EFCC we have research and planning department. In most of our conferences their staff participate and after receiving training from us they go back to their respective agencies and make use of it.
“I hope you are aware of what the current EFCC chairman is doing as regard leveraging on statistics to succeed.So if the said chairman is leveraging on statistics to implement his programmes and drive the idea of eradicating corruption then I urge other agencies to follow suite”Dr. Ebuh stated.
According to him, the national chairman of National Population Commission (NPC) and The Chief Executive Officer of National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) would present Papers during the conference while the Minister of Budget and National Planning,The Statistical General of the Federation and The Managing Director of National Ports Authority will be embedded with investitures by the Association for excelling in their choosing careers.
He said at the end of the conference a communique will be produced which will be forwarded to government proffering solutions needed to tackle some problems going on in the country.
On his part, Chief Dr. Boniface Amobi former Director of Statistics in (NBS) and former president of the Association urged participants to organize themselves in order to benefit fully from the ongoing annual conference which he described as very crucial and apt
