The Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee, ICPC, has vowed to deal with corruption within the fundamental schooling sector.
Chairman of ICPC, Musa Aliyu, made this vow at a three-day capacity-building workshop for officers of State Common Primary Schooling Boards, SUBEBs, and Federal Capital Territory Common Primary Schooling Board, FCT-UBEB on Tuesday in Abuja.
Represented by ICPC Director of Particular Companies, Mrs Grace Agha-Ibe, the anti-graft boss expressed concern over the hurt corrupt practices had brought on within the schooling sector, including that every one fingers have to be on deck to convey the monster underneath management.
Whereas tasking officers within the sector on selling transparency and accountability, he fearful in regards to the penalties of lack of transparency and accountability within the sector.
“Corruption is a most cancers that ramifies each sector of our nationwide life and the schooling sector has not been spared. Certainly the decrease finish of the schooling ladder has witnessed extra of its impression.
“In accordance with the British Council, about one-fifth of the world’s 60 million out-of faculty kids are in Nigeria.
“Kids which can be capable of entry colleges sometimes study little.
“From enrolment, to the availability of textbooks and tools, appointment and administration of lecturers, evaluation of educating and studying processes, supervision, monitoring and analysis of colleges,” he mentioned.
