Abuja- Dr Kabir Usman, the Director-General of Centre for Management Development (CMD), on Sunday threaten to take legal action against quack management development institutes in the country.
Usman, who made the threat in Abuja during a chat with newsmen, said accreditation of management development institutions in the country would begin on March 1.
He said the exercise was aimed at identifying management institutions operating illegally.
He said the centre, as an operational arm of the Nigerian Council for Management Development (NCMD), was empowered to promote ethical values in management consultancy.
The D-G said the centre had the mandate of NCMD to build capacity, accredit management consultants and management development institutions nationwide, including those operating in the private sector.
“Any management consultant or management institute that is operating in this country without accreditation by the CMD is operating illegally.
“By law we can take offenders to court and they will be sanctioned. Our Act is at the National Assembly.
When passed into law, it would give us the biting teeth in terms of carrying out sanctions otherwise we can take somebody to court.
“You know the issues about quacks in management consultancy who negotiate, take the money and the training is never delivered.
“At times, a five-day training days is delivered in two days.
“It is no longer going to be acceptable. There is now a local content agenda and we are going to scrutinise these things and monitor them very closely,’’ Usman said.
He said about 290 out of 315 staff members of the centre have been trained in readiness for the task of identifying quacks in management development programme.
The D-G also said the centre had accredited about 1,369 management training consultants and 434 management institutions, firms or corporate organisations since its inception.
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Usman said the centre accredited about 200 individuals and about 48 institutions in management consultancy in 2014, while about 100 applications from individuals and 55 institutions were still awaiting the council’s approval.
According to Usman, the circular by the Head of Service restraining oversees training was a boost to the centre’s efforts to ensure quality manpower development based on local content.
“I was told that we spent about 158 million dollars on oversees training in one year from both the public and private sectors.
“When you look at this circular, you will see that we are saving about 10 per cent of that which is 16 million dollars.
“When you translate that into naira, you can see that there will be opportunity for training five times the number of people we train oversees.
“It has also given us an opportunity to train the trainers, raise capacity and ensure that quality and standard of management education in Nigeria is improved and protected,’’ he said. (NAN)