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September 11, 2019
Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC has said that Nigeria needed to have parameters for appropriating and accounting for security votes without jeopardizing national security.
Chairman of ICPC, Bolaji Owasanoye, said this at the Quarterly Policy Dialogue on Accountability for Security Votes organised by the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria, the training arm of the ICPC, in Abuja on Wednesday.
Security vote is amonthly allowance that is allocated to the 36 states for the sole purpose offunding security services within such states and it runs into billions of Nairabased on the level of security required by the individual state
The chairman said thatthere should be mechanisms that would ensure that secrecy did not voidaccountability in the issue of security votes in the country.
Owasanoye said this wasnecessary because accountability was key to diminishing corruption which isimportant to national security and development.
He explained that securityvotes was an easy and attractive route for stealing public funds and averitable avenue for abuse of public trust and escalation of poverty.