Integrity Compliance Scorecard: ICPC indicts 97 MDAs
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday released its 2023 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard report.
ICPC, in a tweet through its official It was also revealed that the evaluation is based on FMS). and management systems (AS).
The commission tweeted, “Introduction and background: In the exercise of its preventive duty set out in section 6(bd) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Act 2000, the Commission In collaboration with J4A)/DFID, we developed the Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard and implemented it in selected MDAs (20 MDAs) in 2016. 2019 (280MDA); 2020 (352MDA); 2021 (360MDA); 2022 (360MDA); and 2023 (404MDA).
“The scorecard is based on three key performance indicators (KPIs): Management Culture and Structure (MCS), Financial Management System (FMS), and Administration System (AS). and assess compliance with regulations.
ICPC, in its 2023 EICS Deployment Survey Results, showed that 97 MDAs, representing 26.36%, had not conducted an annual needs assessment in preparation for procurement in accordance with the Public Procurement Act 2007. said that it was done.
“59 MDAs (16.3%) did not have an annual procurement plan in line with the approved annual budget, while 85 MDAs (23.10%) did not have guidelines for giving advance payments to staff. It was.”
“67 MDAs (18.21%) did not make prepaid retirements on time, while 88 MDAs (23.91%) did not guarantee advance payments for retirees before granting new retirees.”
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“This is a major vulnerability for corruption, as advances remain one of the conduits for misappropriating funds.”
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