Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch Embrace NAPPR Project

Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch Embrace NAPPR Project

The Centre for Media, Policy and Accountability (CMPA) has continued its advocacy to seek collaboration with sister agencies on the successful implementation of the Nigeria Anti-Corruption Performance Public Reporting (NAPPR) project.

The Executive Director of the Centre and project lead, Dr Suleiman Amu Suleiman, who led the project team to Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch, explained that the project has four components: research, advocacy, training and developing a harmonised template for anti-corruption reporting.

He lamented the differences in the pattern of reporting corruption by Anti-Corruption Agencies (ACAs) as a result of the different indicators used, and hope that the project will fill this gap by developing a harmonized template that the ACAs will use in reporting corruption in Nigeria.

Also speaking, the Deputy Project Manager, Naziru Mikailu said at the onset of the project, ‘the Centre faced difficulties in convincing the ACAs to key into this project’.

‘We hope that the Centre will help us in the implementation of this project and development of the template in view of your field experiences’, Naziru noted.

The Executive Director Center for Fiscal Transparency and Integrity Watch, Mallam Umar described the NAPPR project as brilliant which will give civil society organizations, the media and members of the public an opportunity to check those who check others.

‘We will support CMPA Implement this project’ Umar assures.

Also speaking, Chairman of the Centre Abdulrahman A. Mustapha, expressed the hope that the template when developed will give the required result of unifying various variables of measuring corruption which will facilitate development.

‘The centre is ready to provide CMPA with all the technical support needed to ensure that the template is accepted by the ACAs in Nigeria’, he added.

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Ibrahim Uba Yusuf,
Director Communications, Advocacy and Outreach.