By Audrey Lotechukwu
TUE, 10 NOV, 2020-theGBJournal-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) latest Ethics Compliance and Integrity Scorecard (ECIS) for 352 MDAs ranks Industrial Training Fund, Jos top of the compliance scorecard at 88.9.
Federal Government owned learning institutions and research agencies dominates the top ten places. The Federal Inland Revenue Service, Abuja (70.4), a major revenue centre ranks a distant 26.
The latest ranking includes 132 MDAs that submitted after the deadline despite reminders, and were not captured in the analysis.
The ECIS measures how MDAs comply with ethical, integrity, statutory, regulatory and policy standards and requirements.
The goal is to diminish corruption risk, improve ethics and integrity benchmark and improve service delivery.
It was deployed between July and September 2020 in 352 MDAs. Only 220 MDAs responded despite a grace period of three weeks for submission. Assessed public institutions were also scored and rated according to their compliance level.
‘’While MDAs rated compliant on the score are commended, non-responsive MDAs have been classed as “Corruption High Risk Agencies” and listed for further inquiries and actions by the Commission,’’ ICPC said.
‘’Government institutions and agencies are reminded that the Scorecard will be deployed in 2021 and therefore enjoined to adopt and instill compliance values in their systems and procedures and respond as appropriate to the ECIS and other corruption preventive tools in our collective drive to fight corruption.’’
25 Regulators, Commissions and Councils failed to respond to the ECIS measures and consequently classified as “Corruption High Risk Agencies”.
In this category are the National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCRIDP), Council for the Regulation of Freight Forwarding in Nigeria, National Hajj Commission, Public Complaint Commission, Legal Aid Council, Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, National Assembly Service Commission, Petroleum Equalization Fund Management Board and Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board.
Among the notable Agencies that fall under this category are Department of Petroleum Resources, Debt Management Office (DMO), Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and Niger Delta Power Holding Company Ltd.
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