FG Committed To Making ACAN Best In
Africa – PMB
President Muhammadu Buhari has said
that the Federal Government was committed to making the Anti-Corruption Academy
of Nigeria (ACAN), a training arm of the Independent Corrupt Practices and
Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the best anti-corruption training
school in Africa.
Buhari who spoke at the opening
ceremony of the training workshop on Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) for heads
of anti-corruption agencies in Africa, noted that the support for ACAN had
become necessary in order to help Nigeria and other African countries deal with
the massive problems of corruption on the continent.
This was revealed in a statement by
the spokesperson for the Commission, Rasheedat Okoduwa.
The statement noted that the
President observed that the fight against corruption was a battle for the soul
of different countries in Africa that must be won, adding that CRA being
championed by ICPC was a good tool for ensuring the success of the battle.
He promised that, “ACAN has earned
our support as it moves to becoming a focal centre for anti-corruption studies
in Africa.”
The President called on the
participants from over 30 Africa Union (AU) member countries to domesticate the
CRA template, stressing that the training can only be meaningful if the
Assessors are put to work back in their countries.
Earlier, the acting chairman of
ICPC, Dr. Musa Usman Abubakar, in his welcome address noted that the
introduction of CRA by ICPC had helped government to block avenues for
corruption in its financial systems.
Dr. Abubakar listed some of the
areas where the Commission had conducted CRA to include the ports sector,
Nigerian international airports and selected Ministries, Department and
Agencies (MDA) which had led to a significant reduction of opportunities for
corruption in Nigeria.
Stressing the need for CRA training,
he said, “When loopholes and leakages in the systems are plugged, people will
be denied access to public funds and as such will not have the opportunity to
misappropriate it.”
There are about 42 participants
drawn from AU countries like Mauritius, Mali, Kenya, Lesotho, Guinea Bissau,
South Africa, Morocco, Togo, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda.
Others are Ghana, Senegal, Benin
Republic, Zambia, Niger, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Burundi, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Cote d’Ivoire and Tanzania.
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