Ribadu arrives in Afghanistan
Former EFCC Chairman arrives in Afghanistan to help fight corruption there.
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The Action Congress of Nigeria's Presidential candidate, former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nuhu Ribadu has relocated to Afghanistan to assume duties as a member of the Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee there.
The appointment which was by the United Kingdom's Department for Foreign International Development (DFID) in Afghanistan came in December 2010 but has him starting in Kabul this month. His schedule will take him between the cities of Kabul and Kandahar on a regular basis.
In a press statement released by the Team Ribadu, the former chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, begins a three-week country governance audit of Afghanistan as part of a six-man international monitoring team set up by the United Nations under the “Afghanistan Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee", today.
Ribadu left Nigeria for Afghanistan last Tuesday, May 3. He joined five other team members in Dubai from where they traveled into Kabul over the weekend. In Afghanistan, they are expected to fine-tune the strategy of curbing corruption in the troubled country.
According to a media aide to Ribadu, Ibrahim Modibbo, Although the committee is expected to complete its work in two years, the task will not affect Mr. Ribadu’s national priorities and his continued commitment to the growth and development of Nigeria.
“It is Mr. Ribadu contribution to the global fight against corruption that has gotten him this recognition. This will however not deter him from playing his roles as a responsible citizen and political leader in our country.”
“You know, his party, the ACN, controls six states and Mr. Ribadu will do all he can to ensure that the governors of those six states bring the dividends of democracy to their people in order to let Nigerians know that the ACN is the best party to rule the country” he concluded.
The committee’s duties, according to briefs from the DFID and the United Nations Development Programme office, include a review of the social, political, economic and cultural conditions giving life to corruption in the country, which they tag “drivers of corruption,” and a sustainable proposal on how to curb the crime and moral ill that has ravaged the image and international standing of the conflict ridden country.
Aside from offering best “approach and principles” of fighting corruption, on a legal basis”, the monitoring team, according to its mandate, is also expected to propose ways of ensuring that international aid and development financing to Afghanistan meets with the country’s “national priorities.”
Afghanistan (ranked 176th) is the third most corrupt country, with a CPI (corruption perception index) of 1.4 according to Transparency International, with only Somalia (178) and Myanmar (176) ranked worse. Nigeria is ranked 134 with a CPI of 2.4 among the 178 countries ranked by the Berlin based body.
Members of the committee who were appointed late last year commenced work on April 21 with a teleconference on the task at hand and how to achieve their mission.
The monitoring and evaluation is expected to guide the international community on how best to relate with the country.
The appointment which was by the United Kingdom's Department for Foreign International Development (DFID) in Afghanistan came in December 2010 but has him starting in Kabul this month. His schedule will take him between the cities of Kabul and Kandahar on a regular basis.
In a press statement released by the Team Ribadu, the former chairman of the EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, begins a three-week country governance audit of Afghanistan as part of a six-man international monitoring team set up by the United Nations under the “Afghanistan Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee", today.
Ribadu left Nigeria for Afghanistan last Tuesday, May 3. He joined five other team members in Dubai from where they traveled into Kabul over the weekend. In Afghanistan, they are expected to fine-tune the strategy of curbing corruption in the troubled country.
According to a media aide to Ribadu, Ibrahim Modibbo, Although the committee is expected to complete its work in two years, the task will not affect Mr. Ribadu’s national priorities and his continued commitment to the growth and development of Nigeria.
“It is Mr. Ribadu contribution to the global fight against corruption that has gotten him this recognition. This will however not deter him from playing his roles as a responsible citizen and political leader in our country.”
“You know, his party, the ACN, controls six states and Mr. Ribadu will do all he can to ensure that the governors of those six states bring the dividends of democracy to their people in order to let Nigerians know that the ACN is the best party to rule the country” he concluded.
The committee’s duties, according to briefs from the DFID and the United Nations Development Programme office, include a review of the social, political, economic and cultural conditions giving life to corruption in the country, which they tag “drivers of corruption,” and a sustainable proposal on how to curb the crime and moral ill that has ravaged the image and international standing of the conflict ridden country.
Aside from offering best “approach and principles” of fighting corruption, on a legal basis”, the monitoring team, according to its mandate, is also expected to propose ways of ensuring that international aid and development financing to Afghanistan meets with the country’s “national priorities.”
Afghanistan (ranked 176th) is the third most corrupt country, with a CPI (corruption perception index) of 1.4 according to Transparency International, with only Somalia (178) and Myanmar (176) ranked worse. Nigeria is ranked 134 with a CPI of 2.4 among the 178 countries ranked by the Berlin based body.
Members of the committee who were appointed late last year commenced work on April 21 with a teleconference on the task at hand and how to achieve their mission.
The monitoring and evaluation is expected to guide the international community on how best to relate with the country.
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