NCC, Academy Collaborate In Anti-Corruption Fight

The management of Nige
rian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced its readiness to collaborate with the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria to fight corruption in the country and especially within its own operational system.
The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof Umar Dambatta, sated this in Abuja on Monday while speaking to newsmen shortly after the visit of the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria to the NCC headquarters.
Dambatta said that the commission would initiate measures within the NCC aimed at preventing internal corruption practices among its staff.
The NCC boss said that corruption had remained endemic and a menance in all areas of the Nigerian society, stressing that as such it required proactive measures to tackle it permanently.
He also said that there was need to build measures and processes which could permanently address the perennial menance from its grassroots and urged the academy to acquaint itself with all the laws and regulations of ministries, MDAs of government as well as the Nigerian constitution in order for the academy to fight corruption effectively.
He said that with the effective collaboration between the academy and NCC, the commission could put some measures in place that would prevent or check corrupt activities within its system.
He said that the commission would engage the academy to train its staff in the areas under consideration adding that corruption is an evil that must be wiped out even in the entire telecoms sector of the nation.
Dambatta said that the commission had a similar training institute referred to as Digital Bridge Institute, where manpower for the telecoms sector with diverse needs of communication were trained.
The Anti-corruption Academy of Nigeria delegation was led by its provost, Prof Sola Akinrinade during the visit to NCC.