PCC Urges Imo Residents To Report Erring Public Servants

The Public Complaints Commission (PCC), has urged Imo residents to report public officials who encourage administrative injustice to the commission.
The Commissioner in charge of PCC in Imo, Chief Ambrose Ugboaja, made the call in an interview with our correspondent in Owerri, recently.
Ugboaja said that residents of the state should align themselves with the present administration’s fight against corruption by reporting such public servants to the commission for sanctions.
The commissioner said that public and civil servants must support the vision of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight against corruption by carrying out their duties as and when due.
“For the fight against financial corruption to succeed, those who bend administrative rules must be fished out first and punished,’’
“The PCC was established to address administrative injustice which is a stepping stone to nepotism and financial corruption.
“Nigerians must exhibit the courage to fight this societal ill by bringing reports against public officials who work against the rules of their engagements for adequate actions,” he said.
Ugbuaja said that the failure by Nigerians to report erring public officials to the appropriate quarters had made such people “to grow wings and loot the public treasury’’.
He told newsmen that the commission in the state received 985 reports in 2013 and resolved 738 while 247 were pending.
The commissioner said that PCC equally received 535 reports in 2014 and resolved 392 while 143 of the matters were carried over to 2015.
Ugboaja said that PCC had been repositioned to tackle complaints from parties, and added that the operations of the commission were in line with the tenets of democracy.
“PCC has offices in the 36 states of the federation, the FCT and almost all the local government areas in the country,” he added.
The commissioner further advocated the amendment of the Act establishing the commission, and said that was long overdue for it to perform its duties as an ombudsman and meet modern challenges.