Abeokuta: By Sina ODUNTAN
Published, July 14, 2021
NATIONAL COMMUNITY ETHICS AND VALUE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE CORPS has been launched in Ogun State to raise awareness, educate, sensitize, realign and persuade Nigerians to embrace the nation's ethics, ethos and ethical values of the different tribes and ethnic groups in the country.
Launching the new Ethics and Value Environmental Compliance Corps in Abeokuta, Tuesday, at Iwe Irohin Press Centre, Commander Johnson Obasanjo Onilu, Ogun State Commander said the Corps officers and men have undergone special trainings in ethics and valuue to make them sterling models and be able to enforce compliance to ethics and valuue of the nation's environment whenever they are posted to serve throughout the length and breadth of Ogun State and Nigeria.
The Corps State Commander urges Nigerians to embrace the noble ethics and ideals for which Africans are known, practiced by generations, and inculcated in children.
They ethicists. essence of this conference is mainly to intimate you with the objectives, aims and the activities of the corps as well as the programmes mapped out by our management team in the state towards instituting ethically rational Ethos into the consciousness of the people.
National Community Ethics and Values Environmental Compliance Corps (NCEVECC), operating under the umbrella of Foundation for the Advancement of Ethics and Values International (FAEV Int'l), an initiative of Dr. Sarah Jibril, a former Special Adviser to President Goodluck Johnathan on Ethics and Values was founded in 200. The Corps has a replica in Canada.
The corps acting Commandant General Gana Yussuf, heads NCEVCC at the national headquarters, Abuja structures in the 36 states of the Federation and Abuja, FCT.
Commander Onilu while addressing journalists, said the Corps, though not an arm bearing organisation but has a moral compass more effective and enduring than weapons to persuade Nigerians to conduct their daily activities in the most civilised African ways and manner.
Given teeth to the essence of the corps's duty, Onilu says officers an men received training in ethics, a set of rules that defines right and wrong conducts, "ethos" which means character, moral philosophy, science of duty; the philosophical study of morals and values; the body of rules of duties; a particular system of principles or rules; tradition, rules of practice.
"Our Officers and men understand doctrine of ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important. This consciousness leads them to moralise. is a set of rules that defined right and wrong conducts, adding that ethos means character, science of duty, and philosophy of moral.
He called on Nigerians to abhor immoral activities and crimes as rape, banditry, cultism kidnapping , killing as much as open defication, improper dressing, and corruption, saying henceforth NCEVECC's officers and men would soon be posted to various communities to enforce environmental compliance of Nigerian ethics and value system.
He pointed out that the responsibilities might be carried out singularly by NCEVCC or in collaboration with oother aw enforcement agencies or sister institutions.
Other officers at the event included Commander Atambala, Hon. Oyasina Oyapitan, Usman S. A., State Instructor, and State Deputy Commander, DSS Fahounbo.
Chairman, Ogun State Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Soji Amosu, as part of the event, and a veteran Journalist, Prince Henry Ojoye, Editor, Digest magazine were decorated as fellows of NCEVECC.
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