Senate applauds ICPC for adherence to federal character principles
The Nigerian Senate has commended the Unbiased Detestable Practices and Assorted Linked Offences Payment (ICPC) for its commendable and fixed adherence to the guidelines of Federal Character in the composition of its group and distribution of positions for the interval of the organisation.
This recognition turned into given on Wednesday on the Nationwide Assembly in Abuja by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator Allwell Onyesoh, all around the appears of the ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, and his administration crew sooner than the committee to most up-to-date the commission’s workers profile and deployment statistics.
Talking after the presentation, Senator Onyesoh expressed deep satisfaction with the Payment’s transparency and inclusive practices.
He praised the ICPC for demonstrating a clear dedication to fairness, fairness, and nationwide illustration in its appointments and promotions. He entreated assorted Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to emulate the commission’s exemplary mannequin.
In his words, “ICPC has proven that due process is no longer perfect that you just would possibly maybe be in a position to take into consideration but additionally achievable. What you are going to need got offered nowadays provides us hope that we still have institutions and folks dedicated to building the next Nigeria. You can have honoured this establishment by being launch and clear about how you habits appointments and elevate officers to high positions.”
Senator Onyesoh lamented that plenty of MDAs intentionally steer sure of exhibiting sooner than the Committee, largely as a result of an absence of transparency and sad compliance with federal personality necessities.
He additionally properly-known that plenty of of us who've looked sooner than the Committee have did no longer fulfill classic expectations, contrasting them with the ICPC’s prominent performance.
The Senator went extra, “Every time we stumble upon challenges with any MDA referring to compliance with federal personality guidelines, we are in a position to scream them to you so that they'll study out of your example. I'm very tickled with the extent of openness and accountability that ICPC has demonstrated nowadays. It is in point of fact great of emulation.”
Assorted contributors of the Committee additionally commended the ICPC, noting that the commission has eminent itself by asserting a balanced and clear group. They described the ICPC’s nominal roll and manpower distribution across the six geopolitical zones as unparalleled amongst authorities institutions.
Presenting the commission’s personnel statistics, the ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, disclosed that the Payment currently has 1,163 workers contributors, reasonably distributed across the six geopolitical zones as follows: North Central – 19%, North West – 19%, North East – 16%, South South – 16%, South West – 16%, and South East – 14%.
The ICPC Chairman extra revealed that the commission has ten directors overseeing its diverse departments, comprising 9 substantive directors and one performing director, all of whom are equitably distributed across the six zones.
He acknowledged, “The Payment, as Nigeria’s main anti-graft company, is proud to be practising what it preaches. We're fully dedicated to upholding all extant guidelines and guidelines, including the Federal Character Balancing Index, and we now have gotten been time and again commended by the Federal Character Payment for our fixed compliance.”
He reaffirmed the commission’s dedication to promoting fairness and inclusiveness, noting that these values are central to its mandate of fostering integrity and steady governance in Nigeria.
