The Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee has revealed that no Ministry, Division, or Company of the Federal Authorities achieved full compliance within the 2025 Ethics and Integrity Compliance Scorecard.
The Chairman of the fee, Aliyu Musa, represented by the Director of the System Research and Evaluation Division, Olusegun Adigun, revealed this whereas presenting the scorecard on Tuesday.
Highlighting the efficiency of 344 MDAs assessed, he mentioned the outcomes confirmed that 48 MDAs (13.95%) demonstrated substantial compliance, 132 MDAs (38.37%) recorded partial compliance, 141 MDAs (40.99%) confirmed poor compliance, and 23 MDAs (6.69%) fell underneath non-compliance.
“No MDA achieved full compliance. Out of the 344 MDAS assessed, 48 MDAS (13.95%) demonstrated Substantial Compliance, 132 MDAs (38.37%) recorded Partial Compliance, 141 MDAs (40.99%) confirmed Poor Compliance, and 23 MDAs (6.69%) fell underneath Non-Compliance. As well as, 13 MDAs (3.64%) from the entire 357 MDAs deployed have been non-responsive and categorised as high-risk MDAs.
“169 MDAs wouldn’t have the core values, mission and imaginative and prescient techniques for understanding by their employees, and 191 MDAs wouldn’t have domesticated insurance policies relating to acceptance of items, donations, hospitality, and many others., which can create integrity,” he mentioned.
He additionally famous that 114 MDAs didn’t submit monetary stories to the Workplace of the Accountant Normal of the Federation, 40 MDAs didn’t remit internally generated income as required, and 75 MDAs didn’t adjust to fiscal accountability provisions.
“114 MDAs didn’t render monetary stories to the Workplace of the Accountant Normal of the Federation (OAGF) for the 12 months underneath overview. vii. 40 MDAs didn’t adjust to the necessity to remit IGR as required by the usual and 75 MDAs didn’t adjust to the fiscal accountability provisions.
“114 MDAs didn’t conduct market surveys inside the 12 months underneath overview. xiv. 50 MDAs have petitions /ongoing investigations by the ICPC in opposition to the organisation or its personnel for infractions or defaults/non-compliance with procurement/recruitment processes.
“With xv. 21 MDAs wouldn’t have authorized devices establishing the organisation, and 16 MDAs function with out paperwork (operational guide) that define and clarify the insurance policies and operations of the organisations, whereas 24 MDAs don’t conduct annual efficiency critiques and value determinations; due to this fact, promotion of employees is irregular.”
The ICPC boss famous that whereas some enhancements have been noticed in monetary administration, weak administrative techniques, poor coaching, and ineffective ACTUs proceed to undermine transparency and accountability within the public sector.
The report highlighted persistent gaps in governance and accountability, together with insufficient monetary reporting, weak procurement processes, inadequate employees coaching on ethics and restricted implementation of anti-corruption measures similar to Whistleblower insurance policies and Anti-Corruption and Transparency Models.
