ICPC Inaugurates Monitoring C’ttee In IAUOE

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has inducted five member Anti-Corruption and Monitoring Unit (ACTU), at the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State that would assist the commission monitor and curb the web of corruption in the institution.

Those inducted are three men and two women who are all staff of the university, which include Dr. Apele G. Iyagba, Chairman, Dr Joseph Kinanee, Mr Odua George, Ms Peter-Kio Opirite-Boma as members, while Ms Ngozi Okiridu, will serve as the secretary to the committee.

Inducting the ACTU committee members at the auditorium of the Post-Graduate Schools of the institution last Thursday, the secretary of the ICPC, Mr Elvis Oglafa said the inauguration of the committee in the institution was in accordance with the Federal Government’s directives which compelled all the MDA’s to establish an anti-corruption committees in their respective agencies across the country.

The ICPC Chief Scribe   said the committee had the responsibilities to discover corruption prone areas in the institution and profer advice to the management of the institution. Represented on the occasion by the commission’s Director, Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Mr. Gadji Barnabas, said the committees’ responsibility was solely on investigation and added  that they had no power to prosecute anybody found indulging in corruption.

According to him, the measure was to enable the commission to vigorously fight the  scourge of corruption in the society and said that all hands must be on deck to  rid the society of all corruption  tendencies.

“We as  commission, we can not  be every where and can not know  very well how the  corruption was being perpetrated in the school. So we can only get it right by using the people within the   same environment “we are happy today that a body has been inaugurated and members inducted because when  we get the  university right, the society  will be  well,” he added.

He urged them to assist the management fight corruption in the university, adding that they were by the rules establishing the ACTU to report all their findings to the Vice Chancellor after their investigations for further  actions.

Also speaking, the  Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof Rosemund Dienye Green-Osahogulu assured of the support of the school  management   to both ICPC and the  ACTU to enable them perform  their functions accordingly.