CDD to support funding of national anti-corruption strategy
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) said it would support funding for the implementation of National anti-corruption strategies in the country.
The Director of the CDD, Ms. Idayat Hassan, gave the pledge on Thursday in Abuja at the third “High Level Strategic Session/Policy Roundtable on the Roles of Stakeholders in the Implementation of National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) in Nigeria” organised by the CDD and Trust Africa.
Hassan, represented by the Senior Program Officer, Managing Anti-corruption, Mr. Lukman Adefolahan, said the strategy had five pillars, with different government agencies to lead the implementation, citing the National Orientation Agency (NOA) expected to handle the reorientation and ethical values strategy as an example.
He said that on prevention of corruption, the ICPC was expected to lead since its core mandate was on prevention while the assets recovery component would be coanchored by the major anticorruption agencies.
On her part, the Head, Legal Department Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP), Mrs. Amaka Obinna, said corruption was fuelled by dearth in ethical and moral values in the country.
The Head, Technical Unit on Governance and AntiCorruption Reforms (TUGAR), Ms. Lilian Ekeanyanwu, said that unit alongside other anticorruption agencies developed the NACS because of the need for a strategic approach to fighting corruption not only for domestic good but at the global level.
Ekeanyanwu said that currently, the onus was on the implementation of the strategy and that the monitoring and evaluation was also ongoing and periodically.
Also, the Executive Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Sadiq Radda said that the anti-corruption fight was one that had to be won with a strategy thus the initiation of the National AntiCorruption Strategy (NACS).
Radda said that NACS was the government’s initiative to establish national consensus on how to tackle corruption across board.