Dataphyte, a media research and data analytics organization, has launched Anfani, an innovative platform that links public procurement data from the federal and state governments with beneficial ownership information of government contractors.
The Launch of Anfani is part of activities to mark this year’s International Anti-Corruption Day with the theme ‘UNCAC at 20: Uniting the World Against Corruption.
The day is commemorated every December 9.
Describing the platform, Joshua Olufemi, Founder and Executive Director of Dataphyte, stated that the platform offers a tripartite benefit to accountability and anticorruption stakeholders.
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He said, “First is the transparency on corporate entities servicing the public contracting sector in Nigeria. Second, it provides social network visualisation of the who-is-who in several sectors including minerals and energy resource exploration industry and lastly, it is a tool for connecting the dots within organized crime and illicit financial flow structures.”
Daily Trust learnt that the platform’s unique name is from the Yoruba word for ‘benefit,” and it is designed as an open-source platform to help journalists, civil society, and anti-graft organisations follow the money and investigate the political and financial connections existing within the public procurement and audit processes across different levels of government.
“Anfani is an intervention that leverages open data and connects the crucial dots between procurement and beneficial ownership for journalists, civic actors and anti-graft organisations to better fight corruption by exposing it and punishing offenders,” he added.
Nigeria is ranked 154th out of 180 nations in Transparency International’s (TI) 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI).
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