ICPC Moves To Stop Corruption In Projects Execution

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says in its drive to stop corruption in the projects executed by state governments, the commission has launched its Constituency Projects Tracking Group initiated in 2019.
ICPC commissioner in charge of Rivers and Bayelsa States, Mr Chukwurah Alexander, stated this during an interactive session with various stakeholders in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.
He said the commission had commenced the first phase of tracking with 12 states to see whether constituency projects were executed and how satisfactory they had been carried out.
He equally said the commission in collaboration with the National Orientation Agency (NOA) had urged Bayelsa communities to get involved in the conception and execution of constituency projects by the national and state representatives towards bringing adequate development to the grassroots.
Alexander said the public enlightenment centred on constituency and government projects in the communities and the roles citizens had to play to make everyone benefit from the projects.
Alexander said: “This exercise, popularly known as CPTG, was a huge success with the communities in the pilot states on account of the fact that a lot of abandoned projects were completed or are now being completed because of the intervention by the ICPC.
“The exercise also led to the recovery of equipment and machinery meant for the benefit of ordinary people which were kept away and were not distributed. Many of such have been distributed to beneficiaries and have since been put to use.
“In the process as well, ICPC recovered money for government from those who did not execute the projects, underperformed or inflated the cost of projects.”
He stated that the second phase of tracking projects had been widened to include those projects which were specifically developed and implemented by the executive arm of government.
He called on community people to get involved in the selection, implementation and monitoring of the projects for the purpose of transparency and accountability.