Fighting Corruption: IACA Boss Faults Transparency International Measuring Tool

Transparency International, renowned internationally for fighting corruption has been using a faulty tool in measuring corruption globally.

This is the submission of another reputable anti-corruption organisation, International Anti-Corruption Academy, (IACA) based in Vienna, Austria.

IACA Dean, Mr Thomas Stelzer, Dean, made the submission today in Abuja, through  Mrs Azuka Ogugua, Spokesperson of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).

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Ogugua said Stelzer made the observation in the course of her official working visit to Nigeria during which she called at the ICPC office.

Stelzer reportedly faulted TI measuring tool as having a lot of gaps needing to be repaired.

According to him, there were so much that the governments were doing fighting corruption that were not being credited.

If anything TI’s CPI puts were putting governments under undue pressure, irrespective of what they were doing.

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He did not only observe but said his organisation was bringing together experts for the purpose of a measuring corruption.

“We are totally imperative, we are transparent, and we want everyone to participate from the beginning so that we can hold everybody accountable in implementing later what we might have agreed on.

“And we would also like your Academy to contribute”, he also said.

“One of the reasons I came to visit Nigeria is to see how we can scale up this traditional strong cooperation as well as take things forward with focus on how we can add value to the national efforts in the fight against corruption,”

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He listed relative advantages of the IACA in fighting corruption, adding that it was the only organisation that enjoys the status of an institution of higher learning, authorised to offer academic degrees and that offers technical assistance and capacity building to practitioners.

Such he said was in line with the provisions of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC)