Stakeholders yesterday met in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital to brainstorm on how to promote compliance with the Nigerian Port Process Manual (NPPM)
The regional stakeholders meeting was the brainchild of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network and Convention on Business Integrity in collaboration with the Port Standing Task Team .
In her keynote address, the head of Technical Unit on Governance and Anti-Corruption Reform , Jane Onwunere, said the unit was working with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and the Bureau of Public Procurement to ensure transparency and accountability in Nigerian Ports.
Onwunere, who was represented by Bose Oguntuberu, said, “We all know that all these efforts have been consolidated and already being fully implemented in the Lagos Ports, Apapa and Tin Can and we are now moving to Eastern Ports, which we know some efforts have started. We now want to consolidate on what we have started and sell it to all our private operators.
“The importance of the ongoing efforts to address corruption from the roots through effective preventive mechanism, the Technical Unit of Governance and Anti-Corruption Reform , the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission and the Bureau of Public Procurement embarked on corruption risk assessment.
“The corruption risk assessment was to identify areas that are prone to corruption, proffer recommendation and jointly with relevant MDAs, develop integrity plans that will strengthen transparency and accountability towards a better service delivering.”
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