By Olawale Lamina
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Dr. Musa Adamu has stressed on the critical role of behavioural change in combatting corruption in the workplace.
In a statement by the Ag. Director, Public Enlightenment and Education/Spokesperson for the Commission, Demola Bakare, fsi, the ICPC boss handed down the charge during the Annual Staff Sensitization Workshop organized by the Ministry on the imperatives of behavioural change approach in the workplace.
Represented by an Assistant Director with the ICPC, Dr. Anike Adeshina, Dr. Aliyu stressed that the Commission was mindful of the gains inherent in the continuous in-house sensitization programmes, especially as it concerns behavioural change approach for controlling corrupt practices in the workplace.
Dr. Adeshina revealed that communicating anti-corruption messages would help guarantee understanding of what constitutes corrupt practices in the workplace.
The ICPC Chairman expressed the Commission’s optimism that events such as staff sensitization workshop, will add up to fostering support for the nation’s anti-corruption drive and further propel positive behavioural change against corrupt practices.
In his opening remarks, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology. Abubakar Ibrahim Kana, mni, who was represented by the Director Human Resources Management, Mr. Hassan Baba Ibrahim, noted that the theme of the workshop, ‘Strategies of Combatting Corruption in Workplace’ was in line with the Ministry’s determination to put in place good governance models derived from various parts of the world in order to be free from corrupt practices.
He observed that, with collective efforts in the fight against corruption and corrupt practices would be reduced to the barest minimum within the public sector and the nation at large.
The Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU) in the Ministry, Mrs. Stella Igwilo, while expressing her gratitude to the ICPC and the management of the Ministry for supporting the programme, emphasized that the fight against corruption in the public sector must begin with attitudinal change and a new commitment to personal responsibility by each member of staff.
The sensitization workshop which took place at Nanet Suites, Abuja, had anti-corruption lectures delivered by ICPC resource persons that largely dwelt on fostering preventive strategies of corrupt practices in the workplace.
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