The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has reported that none of the 404 ministries, departments and agencies of the federal government it assessed showed full ethics and integrity compliance in 2023.

This is according to the ICPC’s Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard of MDAs of the federal government completed in September and published in November.

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The scorecard also showed that the ICPC had assessed 280 MDAs in 2019, 352 MDAs in 2020, 360 MDAs in 2021 and 312 MDAs in 2022, only to find that none demonstrated full compliance.

This scorecard, according to the ICPC, creates a platform for comparing and analysing the weaknesses that make government ministries, departments and agencies susceptible to corruption.

“97 MDAs (26.36%) did not conduct annual needs assessment preparatory to procurement in compliance to Public Procurement Act 2007. 59 MDAs (16.3%) did not have annual procurement plans in line with their approved annual budgets,” the ICPC revealed.

“85 MDAs (23.10%) did not have guidelines for granting advances to members of staff, 67 MDAs (18.21%) did not make retirement on advances when due, while 88 MDAs (23.91%) did not ensure personnel retired advances before granting fresh ones. This is a huge corruption vulnerability as advances remain one, not the conduit pipes through which funds are diverted.”

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The Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard is also a tool used to monitor and evaluate MDAs based on management culture and structure, financial management systems and administrative systems as key performance indicators.

This is meant to help federal government MDAs receive and use the feedback on their performances. However, no ministry or agency has managed to use ICPC’s EICS as the self-assessment tool that could help to register full ethics and integrity compliance.

Read ICPC’s 2023 EICS here.