Corruption: Take ownership, hold Gov't responsible, Kaduna Commissioner tasks non state actors

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The commissioner for Planning and Budget commission,Umma Yusuf Aboki has observed that the fight to curb the swell of corruption in the public space is a collective effort between both state actors and non-state actors, and untill this is done, the fight would be won.

The commissioner stated during a roundtable discussion on the topic, 'Curbing Systemic Corruption in the public service', in continuation of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) week celebrated in the state.

Aboki expressed that corruption is accross every facet of life, but, there is so much concentration on the public sector because, they are there to serve the people, while stressing that the canker worm starts right from the home. 

She said untill and unless non-state actors too play their parts by holding the state actors, that is the government responsible for what they do and ensure that if they committed to do something, it is done,  as they cannot be everywhere and due to the pack loads of work on them, corruption in the public space would be brought to the bearest minimum.

According to her," if we do not collaborate between both the state and non state actors, Corruption will have to stay, but Non state actors have to hold the state actors responsible for what they do and ensure that if the state commit to do something, it is been done.

"Alot of this things are done by the state actors, we contract this things out, and we cannot be everywhere, if you look at the man power within the public service, it is a very minute percentage of the Nigeria populace, it is difficult to have the public service actually monitoring all of these activities, unless the community takes ownership and hold us responsible and that's the way to curb corruption", Aboki said.

 

She said Kaduna state government under the present administration having signed the Open Government Partnership(OGP) pact into law is ever committed, to let the citizens and world know that the state is really willing to run a transparent and open government, as well as, a govt for the people, where they are carrying the people and the communities along in everything that concerns them.

Also, the Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Planning and Budget commission, Mrs. Jummai C. Bako the government is committed to everything they have signed into, saying, "that is for creating of development plans, to co-creating of budget, co-creating of monitoring and even procurement, so we are committed to everything we have signed off in the OGP".