By Monday Ijeh
Keffi – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), said it had adopted new technology solutions to boost corruption investigations and prevention.
Mr Ekpo Nta, the Chairman of ICPC stated this on Monday in Keffi at the opening ceremony of a training programme on Forensic Science organised by the commission.
He said that the 10 participants were members of staff of the commission and would be deployed to investigation and prevention of online and computer-based corruption.
He explained that the commission brought in resource persons for the training programme from the Canadian Learning Institute to save cost and ensure that more participants were trained.
“ICPC has moved away from the discourse and investigation of corruption and sensitisation of same as required under our mandate to providing technological solutions.
“We are witnessing an international training programme in a highly skilled field of forensic science.
“This event is significant because in the past we would have expended the same funds training only two or three ICPC staff at the Canadian Learning Institute.
“The institute is mounting the same programme for 10 staff within our own academy in Nigeria and all the required equipment and software for the programme have been brought in,” he said.
Nta said the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria, the research and training arm of the ICPC, was established to address home-grown solutions in terms of specialised trainings.
In his remarks, Prof. Sola Akinrinade, the provost of the academy, said the programme was organised with technical assistant from the EU and the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes.
He called on the participants to take advantage of the resource persons and the facilities provided for the programme to broaden their knowledge on forensic science.