By Dave Oso
ABUJA—THE Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors in Nigeria, CIFIA, has offered to assist the Federal Government in the ongoing anti-corruption war.

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President, CIFIA, Dr Victoria Ayishetu, made the disclosure during the opening ceremony of a three-day training and induction of new members of the institute in Abuja.

Ayishetu said it had become imperative for the government to apply scientific and technological approach to reduce fraud and corruption in both public and private sectors, hence the training of 150 trainees and induction into the institute who are drawn from the public and private sectors.

According to her,  “Corruption has taken a new dimension and traditional auditing cannot tackle it anymore and that is the reason we are training people every month so that we have people that are equipped with this modern advanced auditing knowledge and the skill on how to use science and technology in tackling or sniffing out fraud no matter how small it may be. They go undetected due to ill-equipped traditional system of auditing.

“What we are doing is the heart beat of the Federal Government. I say this because Federal Government needs help and we are out on a rescue mission, and the only way we can help it is to give this people adequate training that can join hands with us to fight this monster called corruption that has come to kill our country and spoil the future of our children.”

Some of the members of the institute include Accountant General of the Federation, Auditor General of the Federation, Ministers, accountants in National Assembly, auditor-generals in local councils, professors, doctors, and others.