ICPC sensitises citizens on new ethics, integrity policy

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday began its sensitisation dialogue sessions on the new National Ethics and Integrity Policy.

The dialogue session for the North-West zone of Kano, Kaduna, Katsina and Jigawa states, which held in Kano, emphasised that the stakeholders must own the policy and further sensitise their various constituents on the core values, aims and objectives of the policy for the country to make progress.

A member of the ICPC Board, Justice Adamu Bello (rtd), who represented the ICPC chairman, identified the seven core values of the policy to include human dignity, voice and participation, patriotism, personal responsibility, integrity, national unity, and professionalism.

Also speaking, ICPC’s Director of Public Enlightenment and Education Muhammad Ashiru Baba said the commission was interested in resuscitating the country’s lost values.

Participants at the session urged the ICPC to support them in taking the message of the policy to the grassroots and also called for the involvement of women in the process.