Rasheedat Okoduwa cuts a striking figure as she addresses her fellow Hong Kong students.
In bright red, traditional African dress and with a voice that needs no help from the microphone provided, Okoduwa is animated as she spells out the importance of her country arresting and convicting a senior politician for corruption.
'It was a watershed,' she tells students on the University of Hong Kong's school of professional and continuing education's corruption studies course.
Okoduwa, assistant director of education with Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), is one of 36 students from 12 countries on the three-week, full-time programme, and they are no ordinary students. With the exception of one, who is from the mainland's liaison office in Hong Kong, the others work with anti-corruption agencies.
Apart from studying theories on corruption, legislation and comparative strategies, the students learn about Hong Kong's 'three-pronged' approach to fighting corruption: enforcement, prevention and education. But the course's architect, Tony Kwok Man-wai, former deputy commissioner with the Independent Commission Against Corruption, set up in 1974, explained that the programme went way beyond the Hong Kong approach.
'People don't come here just to learn the Hong Kong model; we teach international best practice,' he said. 'The Singapore model is taught by the former director of the Corrupt Practice Investigation Bureau. Another lecturer is a senior official from the ICAC, New South Wales.'