The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC) on Monday released the list of agencies of the
Federal Government that it described as most corrupt.
The ICPC scorecard for the rating of Ministries,
Departments and Agencies (MDAs) said about
260 were successfully rated. However, the report shows that 52 agencies
scored zero in the ranking, meaning they did not respond to enquiries on them.
The agencies were thus marked as “High Corruption Risk
(HCR)” by the commission and “flagged for the attention of the public and for
further inquiries and actions.” Notable among them are the Federal
Ministry of Education, Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, National Judicial
Institute, Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, National Bureau of
Statistics and the National Pension Commission.
Others are the Centre for Women Development, Court of Appeal,
National Gallery of Arts, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, National
Population Commission and National Environmental Standards Regulations
Enforcement Agency.
The agencies also include the Nigerian Investment Promotion
Commission, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, the National Centre For Disease
Control, the National Broadcasting Commission, the National Hospital, the National
Examination Council, Minna, Universal Basic Education Commission, the Federal Civil
Service Commission, the National Boundary Commission and the Assets Management
Corporation of Nigeria.
Also on the list of non-compliant MDAs are the Council for
Regulation Of Engineering in Nigeria, the National Agricultural Seeds Council,
Kwali, Nigeria, the Social Insurance Trust Fund, and the Maritime Academy of
Nigeria, Oron.
In the report, the Ministry of Power scored below the integrity
and ethics pass mark of 50 as the ministry got a total score of 46.15 and
closely followed by the ministry of finance with a score of 42.45, 37.25 and
35.60 respectively. Also, the ministries of Niger Delta Affairs, Information
and Health got a total score of 42.10.
Other ministries with low ranking are the
Federal Ministries of Water Resources (35.50), Labour and Employment (32.48)
and Ministry of Justice (18.95). It also shows that about 15 MDAs of the federal government
scored below the 30 mark.
These include the National Commission for Museums and Monuments
(29.93), Projects Development Institute, Enugu (29.90), National Commission for
Refugees, Migrant and Internally Displaced Persons (29.69), Federal Ministry Of
Petroleum Resources (29.55), Librarians Registration Council of
Nigeria (29.45) and Federal High Court of Nigeria
(28.73).
Others are the Federal College of Education, Pankshin (26.65),
Federal Medical Centre, Katsina (24.63), National Institute for Cultural
Orientation (22.50), Bureau of Public Procurement 20.40, Federal
Ministry of Justice (18.95) National Board for Technology Incubation (18.35),
Police Service Commission (15.78) and Centre For Basic Space Science, Enugu
(11.20).
ICPC however ranked the National Lottery Trust Fund highest with
(86.05), the Federal Ministry of Environment (85.78), National Steel Raw Materials
Exploration Agency, Kaduna, (85.46) National Salaries, Income and Wages
Commission (82.60) and the State House, Abuja with (82.00).
This assessment report by the ICPC is in line with its mandate
to ensure the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard (EICS) in the federal
government’s ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs). It is to also assess
their compliance with extant ethical, integrity, statutory, policy and regulatory
standards and practices.
It is part of the Commission’s preventive mandate as provided in
Section 6(b)-(d) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.
It is meant to also reinforce the drive to strengthen probity, accountability
and transparency in public service and entities.
“The goal of the EICS
deployment in MDAs is to diminish corruption risks, system abuse and revive
ethics and integrity benchmarks in government offices while ensuring good
service delivery. The tool was deployed between April and July 2022 in 360 MDAs
with a special focus on the education sector in consonance with the 4th National
Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector themed ‘Reducing
Corruption in the Education Sector.”
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