The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on Tuesday, announced a report of the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) 2023.
ICPC, in a tweet via its official X account, also revealed that the Scorecard evaluates MDAs compliance to ethics, integrity, statutes, policies and regulations based on three key performance indicators namely Management Culture and Structure (MCS), Financial Management Systems (FMS) and Administrative Systems (AS).
It tweeted, “Introduction and Background: The Commission, in the exercise of its prevention mandate as enshrined in Section 6 (b-d) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000, and in collaboration with Justice for All (J4A)/ DFID, developed the “Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard” and deployed the scorecard on select MDAs in 2016 (20 MDAs); 2019 (280 MDAs); 2020 (352 MDAs); 2021 (360 MDAs); 2022 (360 MDAs); and 2023 (404 MDAs).
“The Scorecard evaluates MDAs compliance to ethics, integrity, statutes, policies and regulations based on three key performance indicators (KPIs): Management Culture and Structure (MCS), Financial Management Systems (FMS) and Administrative Systems (AS).
The ICPC said in its findings from the 2023 EICS Deployment showed that 97 MDA’s representing 26.36%, did not conduct annual needs assessment preparatory to procurement in compliance with the Public Procurement Act 2007.
”59 MDAs at 16.3%, did not have annual procurement plans in line with their approved annual budgets while 85 MDAs (23.10%) did not have guidelines for granting advances to members of staff.
”67 MDAs (18.21%) did not make retirement on advances when due, while 88 MDAs (23.91%) did not ensure personnel retired advances before granting fresh ones.
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‘This is a huge corruption vulnerability as advances remain one of the conduit pipes through which funds are diverted.”
