In a recent report titled “Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard on 108 MDAs,” the anti-graft agency evaluated Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the areas of Management Culture and Structure , Financial Management Systems and Administrative Systems to see how they fared in ethical conducts as public institutions.
The measuring scale used to assess the MDAs on ethical standards is based on the level of compliance to ethics. “MDAs operate without ethics and compliance sensitisation activities for staff and stakeholders that will ensure ethics and compliance, to identify corruption vulnerabilities and mitigation mechanisms.
“They also lack domesticated codes of conducts/ethics and policies regarding acceptance of gifts, donations, hospitality among others.”Earlier this month, the commissiongross financial scams ensuing from abuse of personnel budget and inflation as well as padding of nominal role by some Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies amounting to about N12.6 billion, after which additional N6 bn was discovered – totalling N18.
Imagine 3 major & critical ministries exhibiting low level integrity. Education would breed thieves, Health would breed killers, Justice would breed criminals...🤔