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The Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi SAN, has reiterated the Federal Government\u2019s commitment to strengthen efforts to fight corruption at all levels.<\/p>\n

Fagbemi said this at the Validation Meeting of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) (2022-2026) Action Plan on Friday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The programme was organised by the Ministry of Justice with the support of the European Union\/International IDEA, Rule of Law and Anti-corruption (RoLAC II) Programme.<\/p>\n

He noted that NACS would provide a holistic National Anti-corruption strategy for all sectors and stakeholders in the fight against corruption.<\/p>\n

He said after the expiration of the NACS 2017-2021, it became essential that the NACS Action plan be reviewed to ensure enhanced participation, effectiveness and responsiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a series of consultations and collaboration between the 22 MDAs with anti-corruption and accountability mandates, the draft NACS Action Plan is before us, for our perusal and validation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe framework for the NACS Action Plan implementation is focused on five pillars which serve as the driving force for both the public and private sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe five pillars are prevention of corruption, public engagement, campaign for ethical re-orientation, enforcement and sanction, and recovery and management of proceeds crime\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

He said the implementation of the Action Plan would strengthen the legal and institutional framework designed to prevent and combat corruption, noting it would \u201cMainstream Anti-corruption Principles into governance and service delivery and also mainstream Anti-corruption into sub-national Public Administration.<\/p>\n

Also speaking, Mrs Jane Onwumere, Head Technical Unit on Governance and Anti-Corruption Reforms (Tugar), Secretariat of the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) said the 2022-2026 Action Plan would give life to service delivery in the country.<\/p>\n

Onwumere noted that Nigeria has gone through two cycles of review of her implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) which took place in 2014 and 2019 respectively.<\/p>\n

She noted that the previous Action Plan 2017 -2021 witnessed some challenges in implementation, but notwithstanding the challenges; some progress was recorded.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvidence in the passage of critical legislation such as the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cOthers are the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Act, 2022, the Petroleum Industry Act 2021, and the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has also been some growth of transparency initiatives like Beneficial Ownership Disclosures, Open Contracting and Routine Corruption Risk Assessments that determine vulnerabilities to corruption\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the event was attended by Heads of most MDAs with anti-corruption and accountability mandates.<\/p>\n

Other stakeholders present were the current president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, and representatives from different agencies amongst others.<\/p>\n

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