The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC is set to probe funds of Ministries, Departments and Agencies as it has observed that a reasonable number of petitions received by the commission are on infractions committed in the process of implementing the budgetary provisions and allocations of capital development fund and personnel cost.
The Commission’s Spokesperson Rasheedat Okoduwa stated that the move is to reduce the lapses in the utilisation of funds released to Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs for capital expenditure and personnel cost.
She explained that the Commission is set to begin the investigation from today April, 1st with the deployment of its officers to MDAs to carry out a systems study and review of 2017 and 2018 personnel cost as well as 2018 capital development fund.
This will be in addition to deployment of an instrument, known as Ethics and Compliance Score Card, to measure Ethics and Integrity standards in MDA operations.
