By Bod Olagoke
Abuja
Chairman, Independent Corruption Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Ekpo Nta, has declared that the Commission has built systems that would automatically block corruption opportunities, through systemic and operational intervention mechanisms in the public sector national.
He disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja while addressing civil society organisations (CSOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) registered under the ICPC platform of the National Anti-Corruption Coalition (NACC) at a one-day consultative meeting.
He said: “In line with Section 6 (b-d) of the ICPC Act 2000, we built systems that would automatically block corruption opportunities. This, it has been doing through systemic and operational intervention mechanisms in the public sector national.
“In the area of enforcement, the commission has stepped up the arrest and prosecution of corrupt officials, particularly in the areas having to do with education, health, pension matters, tax fraud, visa, scams, and integrated personnel payroll information system (IPPIS), contract awards, acquisition of land using forged document or manipulating process, etc.”
He added: “From 2006, when the coalition was established to date, a total of 298 NGOs have been vetted and fully registered with the coalition while 35 are being vetted.
“It is my belief that you will contribute meaningfully and participate actively to the attainment of the objectives of today’s consultative meeting with the view to strengthen the coalition for a more purposeful and effective fight against corruption.”