CMPA Unveils Anti-Corruption Campaign, Seeks Media Support
The Centre for Media, Policy and Accountability, CMPA, has identified the media as a critical stakeholder in Nigeria’s anti-corruption fight.
It said that a robust media collaboration is essential for the countries anti-graft agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations, NGOs, and Civil Society bodies, involved in fighting sleaze and other economic malfeasance to achieve their goals.
CMPA made this known through its Executive Director and Project Manager, Dr. Suleiman A. Suleiman, in Abuja, on Monday.
Suleiman spoke at a ‘One-Day Stakeholders Meeting Organized for Reporters on Anti-Corruption on the Objectives of Nigeria Anti-Corruption Performance Public Reporting (2017-2022) Project’.
According to the CMPA Executive Director, it is essential to have a harmonized reporting template for anti-corruption journalists in the country.
He assured that their NAPPR project will tremendously help to boost the capacity of journalists who report corruption cases.
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“As anti-corruption journalists, the way and manner you report cases of corruption involving public officials have the potential to enhance Nigeria’s anti-corruption perception index,” said Dr. Suleiman.
Earlier, Dahiru Idris, the Coordinator, Advocacy and Training of NAPPR, explained that members of their CMPA have paid advocacy visits to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC, among other key stakeholders, for mutual collaboration.
He said: “We will also be organizing a series of roundtable discussions with stakeholders to enlighten journalists on the importance of anti-corruption index and its variables, which are used by international organisations like the Transparency International and Mo Ibrahim Foundation, to qualify countries as either corrupt or not”.
Emergency Digest reports that CMPA, an independent not-for-profit organization, focuses on anti-corruption, research, public policy analysis, transparency and accountability to strengthen social, economic and democratic governance in Nigeria.
Its NAPPR project which kickstarted this year will be rounded up in 2024.
