Chairman of the Impartial Corrupt Apply and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, has cautioned managers of the Common Fundamental Schooling Board and the State Common Fundamental Schooling Board (SUBEB) towards circumvention of due processes.
Aliyu issued this warning on Tuesday in Abuja at a capacity-building workshop for SUBEBS and FCT–UBEB on Selling Transparency and Accountability within the Administration of Fundamental Schooling in Nigeria organized by the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), the coaching arm of the fee.
In response to be ICPC boss, from enrollment to the supply of textbooks and tools, appointment and administration of lecturers, evaluation for educating and studying processes, supervision, monitoring and analysis of colleges, in addition to monitoring of initiatives to execution had been doubtless laced with one type of corruption or the opposite.
He attributed the event to an absence of transparency and accountability, lamenting that it has direct and oblique impacts on entry to high quality training within the nation.
Noting that each interventionist businesses had been created to handle the inequality in academic alternatives on the primary stage and enhance the standard of its provision, he reminded the officers that the fee will proceed to hold out its key core mandates of enforcement, prevention, public training and mass mobilization inside the confines of the legislation.
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He said: “As patriotic and accountable ones are doing their greatest to attain the mandate of the board, the unscrupulous ones are unrelenting in making an attempt to avoid the system, as stakeholders within the primary training subsector you’re anticipated to be above board, the general curiosity and impression of your work in your state and the nation at giant ought to override the non-public and collective curiosity of all of the boards.
“Your efforts ought to complement the reforms that authorities of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is bringing on board to the training trade, the causes and penalties of corruption in primary training in Nigeria and the attainable management measures the significance of integrity in your buildings, methods to implement authorities initiatives for sustainable growth, in addition to methods to foster transparency and accountability in your processes are among the many numerous points that will probably be mentioned on the workshop.
“It’s anticipated that the data you’ve got garnered from this workshop will allow you to discharge your duties extra successfully, in order that you don’t run foul of the legislation, however develop into extra clear and accountable in your dealings.”
On his half, the provost of ACAN, Professor Olatunde Babawale, said that the aim of the workshop is to reinforce transparency and accountability within the administration of training and guarantee high quality service supply.
