ACC Commemorate And launch New NACS (2024-2028), Strategy
By: Ahmed Yusuf Turay
The Aunty-Corruption Commission ACC has commemorates the International Aunty-Corruption day and launched the fifth (5th), generation national Aunty-Corruption strategy 2024-2028, at the Miatta Conference Centre, on Monday December 9th 2024.
Chairman of the occasion Umuru Forfona in his key highlights of the New National Aunty-Corruption Commission (NACS) noted that; Sierra Leone National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACS), is a comprehensive framework instrument designed to combat corruption, especially in the public service and promote integrity across all sector of all society.
He stated that; the Aunty- Corruption Commission (ACC), a coherent NACS is crucial to ensuring sustainable development and boosting public confidence in government institutions by fostering accountability, transparency and adherence to the role of law.
Adopting a purely perspective approach , the National Aunty-Corruption Commission adopts a diagnostic and participatory methodology that address the root causes of corruption, the obstacles to effective control measures, and the potential opportunities for transformative engagement with stakeholders respectively.
Further noted that; the strategy in conjunction with its implementation action plan calls for public institutions at the local and national levels to fully embrace the NACS and strive towards altering corruption n the public sector.
He added that the NACS will be implemented using a multifaceted approach that incorporates technology and preventive actions in particular. Legislative changes,, capacity-building programs public awareness campaigns and cooperative efforts with international partners and civil society organisations will be part of this approach they said.
The ACC will lead the coordination and implementation of the 2024-2028 NACS taking the following consideration including forge a workable relationship with the judiciary to adjudicate corruption cases effectively and speedily, enhance collaboration and information sharing mechanisms with government agencies, law enforcement authorities, civil society organisations and the media, established integrity unity within government institutions to promote transparency, ethics and accountability and protect whistle-blowers.
He went on that a national steering committee will be instituted to oversee the NACS’s overall implementation while the Hon. Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh will provide oversight.
He furthered that the implementation matrix ministries department and agencies (MDA’s), will outline specific activities, responsible entities, timelines and performance indicators for each objective and priority areas identified.
He maintained that the 2024-2028 NACS is anchored on four strategic objectives including not limited to bolstering preventive measures, such as accountability and transparency in the highest-spending MDA’s which are known to have high propensity for corruption and have a strong procurement focus, mitigate delivery risks associated with corruption in the government priorities in this medium national development plan focusing on five initiatives as anchors for faster and lasting transformation in feed salone, human capital development, youth empowerment scheme, technology and infrastructure and revamping the public service architecture, instil a culture of social justice that is linked to the distribution of funds and social justice organisations as well as instilling accountability, and transparency, and encourage accountability, openness and better governance in organisations that provide utility services.
He retreated that; the strategy should not be seen as a tool that will prevent ill-gotten gains but rather as a way to ensure the equitable distribution of public resources for the benefit of all rather than enriching a selected few.
