The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), has challenged newly inducted Integrity Committee (IC) members in Livingstone to be effective in the prevention of graft.
ACC Commissioner Webby Kalikiti said the IC members should be effective if they are to make any positive impact in the governance of their respective institutions.
Dr Kalikiti said the fight against graft could not be left to his commission alone because concerted efforts from other stakeholders were needed to change the corruption landscape within the country.
He made these remarks during the official closure of a training workshop for new IC committee members at New Fairmount hotel in Livingstone, Thursday.
He said I.Cs were cardinal in the fight against corrupting because they had the ability to prevent corruption in various Ministries, Departments and Agencies countrywide.
Dr Kalikiti also commended the Royal Danish Embassy and the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Finnish Embassy for their support that enabled the ACC to procure 10 computers and printers for use by the ICs.
And Southern Province Permanent Secretary Darius Hakayobe said the Integrity Committees would be used as the voice for sectors of local communities that had no capacity to stand on their own to give their views.
Mr. Hakayobe urged the committees to inform and educate others on corruption, ethics, conflicts of interest, service charters, leadership and change management and administrative law.
Meanwhile, when moving a vote of thanks, one of the participants Patrick Kambita said the Committees would strive for achieving corruption free institutions in line with government’s zero tolerance to corruption.
Mr. Kambita commended ACC for taking a holistic approach in the fight against corruption saying this would be an effective way of involving all stakeholders in preventing corruption which he described as a cancer with the potential to destroy the nation.
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Yaba…nacelwa futi.
number 3
so pano kulanda fye amanamba shani?
#4 this article is just too boring I can’t comment,Iam waiting for big brains to break the ice.
Is the office of the Investigator General or is it administrator General or something still in existence?
i like my beat down low and my top let back
Expanding the siz e of government when you need every penny to run other departments is ridiculous. What has ACC been up to?
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Are you sure it goes like; I like my beat down low and my top let back or like this?
I like my seat down low and my window slighty crack’d…….
#7 SORRY TOO MUCH LIL WAYNE IN MY SYMBOMETER
Congratulations IG for 10 computers, we have 10 new members on the blog!! What are those computers for? But these Scandinavian donors knows how to throw away money.
How different are the functions of ACC and IC? Who is funding IC. Are wide spread is IC? I am asking these simple questions so that i understand the relenance of this organisation.
Integrity Committee! When is the circus coming to an end.You just appoiny relatives & cadres to such useless committees to make some money when they sit.
Do we have integrity committee in Ndola, i want to be a member so that so that tubekate ba pompwe
How much is sitting down allowance for I.C members pls recruit me