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ICPC Partners OAGF, BPP To Prevent Corruption In MDAs

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ICPC Partners OAGF, BPP To Prevent Corruption In MDAs
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ICPC Partners OAGF, BPP To Prevent Corruption In MDAs

 

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it is partnering with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) and the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) in a special ‘project systems’ study it has embarked on.

A statement on Wednesday by the ICPC spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, revealed that this followed the success of the system study exercises carried out by the Commission in some Federal and State governments’ Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

Okoduwa explained that the project would examine Teaching Hospitals, Federal Medical Centres, Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA), and the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).

She said four special teams comprising personnel from OAGF, BPP and ICPC were inaugurated at the headquarters of the Commission in Abuja on August 8 to achieve the objective.

Addressing the team members during the inauguration, ICPC Acting Chairman, Dr Musa Abubakar, noted that the project was in line with Commission’s mandate as stipulated in Section 6 (b,c and d) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.

“The purpose of the co-option of BPP and OAGF is to create a collaboration that would make the agencies not just to become aware of what ICPC has been doing over the years but to bring them in tune with some of the findings that are relevant to them in order to inform policy in relation to their mandate,” he said.

Dr Abubakar added, “The team leaders are to be responsible for the delivery of the objectives of the special intervention as the Commission intends to make its findings public for all stakeholders to appreciate the role of prevention in the delivery of good governance.”

He also reminded the selected team members that they were representatives of their agencies and that the assignment which they had been given was a testimony to the confidence their agencies had in their capacity.

The System Study and Review is a preventive duty of ICPC as stipulated in Section 6(b,c,d) of its enabling laws.

It involves the examination of an MDA’s systems and processes in order to identify loopholes and gaps that make them prone to corruption.

Where such weaknesses are found, the ICPC is obligated to direct and supervise reforms to strengthen the system against corruption.