By: Bimbo Oyetunde
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has called on media practitioners across Nigeria to leverage their platforms and expertise to expose corrupt practices and promote discipline and accountability in society.
The call formed part of resolutions reached at a stakeholders’ workshop on effective collaboration and corruption prevention, organised by the ICPC in partnership with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Speaking at the event, ICPC Chairman, Musa Adamu Aliyu, described the media as a critical stakeholder whose role in the anti-corruption fight is indispensable.
He stressed that journalists should not see themselves as mere observers but as frontline advocates for integrity, transparency, and institutional trust.
Aliyu noted that the engagement was aimed at strengthening strategic collaboration between the Commission and the media for more impactful results.
He assured that the ICPC would continue to operate with transparency and uphold the confidence reposed in it by Nigerians and its enabling law.
Delivering a lecture titled “Reinvigorating the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (2022–2026): A Post-Assessment Roadmap for the Fourth Estate,” Umaru Pate, a former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Kashere, urged journalists to deepen investigative reporting to uncover corruption, abuse of office, and other societal ills.
He emphasised that the media is constitutionally empowered to report wrongdoing and encouraged practitioners to fully utilise these rights in the public interest.
Also speaking, NUJ President, Alhassan Yahaya, alongside the Director-General of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria and other media stakeholders, reaffirmed the media’s longstanding role in exposing corruption.
They pledged continued collaboration with anti-corruption agencies to rid the nation of corrupt practices.(Radio Nigeria, Lagos)
