PCCB, DCEA intensify fight against graft, illicit drugs
DODOMA: THE Prevention and Combating of corruption Bureau (PCCB) and the Drug Control and Enforcement Authority (DCEA) have launched a robust campaign which seeks to fight graft and illicit drugs in schools and higher learning institutions.
Dubbed: Eliminate Corruption and Illicit Drugs in Schools and Higher Learning Institutions, the campaign was launched just five months after PCCB and DCEA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on various issues that aim at fighting corruption as well as curbing illicit drugs business and use in the country.
The campaign was jointly launched in Dodoma on Wednesday by PCCB Director General, Salum Hamduni and DCEA Commissioner General, Aretas Lyimo at an event where the two equally launched the guidelines to be used during implementation of the campaign.
Speaking immediately after the official launching of the campaign, the two top bosses of crucial institutions expressed optimism that if well implemented, the campaign will help the young generation to refrain from being swallowed by corruption and illicit drugs.
According to the PCCB Director General, the two institutions decided to sign the MoU after realising that some of their responsibilities were similar and that they decided to join forces so that they can help in prevention of crime rather than conducting operations which ought to be done after crimes have been done.
In the MoU, the anti-corruption boss said that both PCCB and DCEA agreed to train their officers who will be executing the ambitious campaign. To begin with, about 58 officers from the two institutions drawn from across the country were trained for two days in Dodoma beginning Tuesday this week.
Also, Mr Hamduni said that the two institutions agreed to exchange intelligence information that will help in averting corruption and illicit drugs business and use, provision of public education through various platforms including anti-graft and anti-illicit drugs clubs in schools and colleges as well as creating awareness to school children and students of higher learning institutions to get rid of acts that violates ethics, traditions and norms as well as volunteering information that can help to avert criminal acts.
Speaking at the launching event, the DCEA Commissioner General said that the two institutions had decided to bank on schools and higher learning institutions because if you prepare the young persons to get rid of corruption and illicit drugs, such crimes were likely to go away.
According to Mr Lyimo, his institution decided to partner with PCCB because the latter has over 7,000 anti-graft clubs in schools and higher learning institutions, therefore the campaign seeks to also bring an idea of the war against illicit drugs in similar clubs.
