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 ‘ICPC’ll collaborate with BPE to protect privatised assets’

21st April 2016
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THE Chairman of the Inde­pendent Corrupt Practices and Other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, has pledged the Commission’s desire to col­laborate with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to protect privatised enterprises in the country from asset-stripping by the new owners.

Speaking against the backdrop of reported cases of asset-stripping by own­ers of privatised enterprises, the ICPC boss commended the initiative by the BPE to partner with the Commis­sion, assured that apart from getting involved as observers in the transaction processes of the Bureau,”ICPC will also collaborate in its post-privatisation activities since some of the investors after takeover often engage in as­sets- stripping thus, negating the essence of privatisation”.

Nta who made this known when the management of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) led by its Acting Di­rector General, Dr. Vincent Onome Akpotaire paid a courtesy visit to the Com­mission said ICPC was inter­ested in strengthening public institutions to ensure that public funds do not enrich individuals.

The Chairman urged the BPE to constantly moni­tor privatised enterprises to achieve the objectives of programme for the benefit of the citizenry. He expressed optimism that the synergy which the Bureau seeks with the Commission would bring about the desired results es­pecially in the areas of in­vestigation and intelligence gathering.

According to him, the Commission had the exper­tise to carry out due diligence and background checks on prospective investors which are major ingredients for foolproof transactions by the Bureau. He listed the gains of privatization which include; preventing the use of pub­lic wealth for private gains, a veritable tool for the fight against corruption and effi­ciency in service delivery.

He recalled that privatisa­tion was actually mooted in the 1970s with the nation­alisation policy in the days of Shell BP and Barclays Bank and that “privatisation was not initially an economic policy, but an attempt to as­sert Nigeria’s independence”.

Earlier, the Acting Direc­tor- General of the BPE, Dr. Vincent Onome Akpotaire had disclosed that the Bu­reau was poised to step up its privatisation processes in line with international best practices.

Akpotaire called for in­creased synergy between both agencies to ensure an all encompassing upgrade of the transaction process. According to him “ICPC is an integral partner in the Bureau’s transactions and its input will be beneficial to the upgrade initiative and the na­tional economic objective in its entirety”.

He said transparency and integrity would remain key in the Bureau’s existing transaction processes and the proposed upgrade especially against the backdrop of “the growing trends of white col­lar crimes across the globe which makes it necessary to close the gaps and help the Commission to be familiar with our processes”.

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  1. Avatar DUFF says:
    5 years ago

    I use to think that the BPE/ Federal Government were no longer interested the Privatised Companies, because of the way and manner most of those privatised firms are being manage by their investors. A typical example is the ALUMINIUM SMELTER COMPANY OF NIGERIA (ALSCON) IKOT ABASI, AKWA IBOM STATE, which was meant to produce Aluminium ingot for export and local consumption.
    The RUSSIAN Investors who took over the management and operations of that plant a few years ago on a very sound footings has within a short period of time succeeded in killing, stripping and looting the assets of that plant to make sure such plant does not exist in this country again and nobody is talking. A Nigerian can never do that in Russia and go free. So Mr. ICPC Chairman, make it as a matter of urgency to visit that plant, please. It is a high time we stop playing game with what we have.
    BPE, wake up and stop pretending as if you don’t know what is happening.

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