The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), has called for stronger collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) in the Corporation.
A statement by the Director, Communication and Public Affairs Department of the Corporation, Bashir Nuhu, quoted the Chairman NDIC Board, Mrs Ronke Sokefun, as saying this yesterday in Abuja.
Sokefun, at a sensitisation seminar for Board and Management of the Corporation, said the drive toward deepening anti-corruption practices in the Corporation informed the invitation of the NACS secretariat to host the seminar.
She said the collaboration through effective sensitisation on the NACS, particularly the National Ethics and Integrity Policy, and the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, would enhance the ownership of the anti-corruption campaign in government agencies.
Sokefun said the Board and Management had always strived to uphold the core values of integrity and professionalism in the discharge of the NDIC mandate.
She said that it was a welcome development to learn new and better ways of enhancing the anti-corruption mantra through the NACS, and stressed the total commitment of the Board and Management to sound corporate governance.
The collaboration, through effective sensitisation on the NACS, particularly the National Ethics and Integrity Policy, and the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, would enhance the ownership of the anti-corruption campaign in government agencies.
The NDIC Managing Director, Bello Hassan, represented by the Executive Director (Operations), Mustapha Ibrahim, lauded the sensitisation initiative of NACS.
The Deputy Director, Public Institutions Ethics and Values, ICPC, John Ode, described the NDIC’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACTU) as the most active among other public institutions.
In his presentation on the National Integrity Ethics and Integrity Policy, Ode lauded the NDIC Board for being the first institution in both the public and private sector to accept and also take the NACS sensitisation to the Board level.
He charged the Corporation to further imprint its anti-corruption campaign messages on all its communication channels as a way of reinforcing the conduct of staff.
Ode said the collaboration with NACS and emergence of NDIC as overall best agency in the 2021 ICPC Ethics and Integrity Scorecard among over 300 public institutions was a testament to the Corporation’s commitment to mainstreaming anti-corruption policies and practices in its operations.
