Danbatta receives EFCC’S ambassadorial badge for entrenching anti- graft culture

Irecognition of his effort at entrenching anti- corruption culture in the communications industry, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission ( NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta has received an ambassadorial badge from the Chairman of the Economic and Financial

Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa.

Bawa presented the badge to Danbatta yesterday in Abuja when the latter paid a courtesy visit to his office to deepen the synergy between the two agencies. The NCC, under the leadership of Prof. Danbatta has been in the vanguard of promoting transparency and openness with the strengthening of its Anti- Corruption and Transparency Unit in line with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission ( ICPC) Act. The ICPC in 2020 ranked the NCC above other departments and agencies of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy ( MOCDE).

The NCC topped the list among three other agencies under the ministry, which featured in the intra- ministerial agencies’ ranking in ethics compliance and institutional integrity with 81.15 per cent.

Similarly, the Commission led 24 other regulatory agencies to emerge as the most ethically- compliant parastatal among 25 different regulatory agencies assessed in the anti- graft agency’s Ethics Compliance and Integrity Scorecards ( ECIS), 2020.