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From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has unveiled plans to mark the 2024 World Anti-Corruption Day on December 5.
The NCDMB anti-corruption unit, led by its Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr. Abdulmalik Halilu, is organising the celebration with the theme Effective Whistleblower Protection Mechanism: A Critical Tool in the Fight Against Corruption.
A statement by the Corporate Communications Unit said NCDMB’s decision to organise the event was buoyed by its ranking as Nigeria’s top-performing organisation in efficiency and anti-corruption from 2022 to date.
It stated that NCDMB is organising the event to sensitise its staff to eschew corrupt practices in their daily operations and to underline the fact that achieving responsive governance in Nigeria would depend on the capacity and effective leadership, as well as deliberate citizen engagement through interest articulation and aggregation.
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As part of the programme of events, representatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and key officials of NCDMB will present papers at a workshop.
Also included in the programme is the grand finale of the debate competition among Federal Government Colleges from the six zones of the country and Bayelsa State, which was selected automatically as the host state.
The selected schools are: Federal Government College, Odi; Federal Government College, Ijanikin, Lagos State; Federal Government College, Okigwe, Imo State; Federal Government College, Warri, Delta State; Federal Government Girls College, Kazaure, Jigawa State; Federal Government College, Maiduguri, Borno State; and Federal Government College, Rubochi, Abuja.
The statement noted that the event was being organised to “instill the ethics of transparency and public interest in Nigerian students” to “promote critical thinking, research, and public speaking skills among that segment of the population, generally viewed as potential future leaders of thought and industry in the country.”
It is also to “encourage students to engage with complex issues that underline good governance and democracy in Nigeria.”
