The members of the Anti- Corruption and Transparency Monitoring Unit, ACTU, Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, MAUTH Yola, Adamawa state, have embarked on staff sensitisation training.
According to the organisers, the training is in line with the System Study and Review Mechanism undertaking as spelt out in Section 6 (b)-(d) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 (ICPC ACT, 2000), with a view to remove or reduce redundancy and block leakages by instilling financial discipline, transparency and integrity; the ethical primacy as a key to quality controlled service delivery, following the inauguration of the new ACTU members of the hospital on Monday, July 25, 2022.
The training, ACTU chairman, Dr Dahiru Aminu M.C. explained, is billed to cover the entire departments of the hospital. However, in consideration of a poet, while tracing the root of a tree, he said, the wisdom is to know the seed. The playwright Ola Rotimi would in his “The Gods Are Not To Blame” articulate that a narrative about the tragic man would begin with his birth as the story of every man should.
Coining as a similitude, the experience of a patient, in a hospital setting, begins with the medical records department being the first point of call. It is meet then that the sensitization training would begin with the members of staff of the said department.
Integrity and adherence to ethical practice to ensure quality control made the central theme of the sensitisation training. It is expected that the lessons learned would be stepped down to the entire staff of the medical records department.
The Anti- Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU), is a creation of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) as one of the implementation mechanisms for its Mandate on prohibition and prevention of corruption especially in the Public Service. Anti-Corruption Units are established in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government and operate as autonomous outfits with functional linkages with the office of the Chief Executives of the MDAs.
For the purpose of exercising its power of System Study and Review in Section 6 (b)-(d) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 (ICPC ACT, 2000), the Commission made a request to the Executive Arm of Government to establish ACTU in all Ministries and other Government establishments. The approved request was followed by a Directive from the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSOF) through a Circular, Ref. No. OHCSF/MSO/192/94, dated 2nd October, 2001. Funding for the Unit is to be provided by the respective MDAs, as contained in another Circular, Ref. No. OE/MS/MSO/196/S.1/7, dated 16th April 2003, from the OHCSOF.
See below the names of the newly inaugurated ACTU members of MAUTH Yola:
1 Dr Dahiru Aminu M.C. Chairman
2 Mr Mohammed Ibrahim (Audit) Investigation Officer
3 Mr Etim Emmanuel (Lab Science) Inspection Officer
4 Mr Abraham Peters Emmanuel (Finance) Investigation Officer
Mr Gabriel E. Musa (Nursing Services) Prevention Officer
6 Mr Inuwa Adams Madu (Med Records) Ethics and Compliance Officer
7 Mrs Husseina Bubakari Bello (Admin) Enlightenment Officer/Secretary.