The commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Ady Macauley, has disclosed to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and members of the media that the commission will be reviewing the National Council for Technical and Vocational Awards (NCTVA).
He made this disclosure during a media and civil society update meeting organized on Tuesday, by the Commission at Santanno house in Freetown.
The commissioner said the review will be in nexus to the review of the University of Sierra Leone as well as that of Njala University.
Ady expressed dissatisfaction on the rate at which public exam mal-practice is rising. He noted, “During the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), we went nation wide and it was disheartening to see the roads in which parents, students, teachers and examiners are ready to go just to have people unfairly pass the exams. We arrested a few and handed them over to the police. Our problem is not the students but the people that are making these materials accessible”.
The commissioner went on to say that their concern was that “the wealth of a nation is basically the human resource that they have because it is the human resource that manages the natural resource that they have”, stressing further that if they do not have competent people to manage those resources it would be as good as not having those resources at all.
Speaking on the changes that would be made during the review, the Director of systems and processes review at the ACC, Maurice D. Williams said the review will range from record keeping, procurement, human resources among others.
He said, “At the end of the day we would have succeeded in reducing corruption possibilities.”
He also explained that the key focus for the review will be to better the agency’s service delivery capacity, adding however that if the commission discovers anything that may be pertinent to corruption investigations they will be turned over to the appropriate department for investigations.
The review he pointed out will however not cover the West African Examination Council (WAEC), as the commission will first of all have to advice themselves on the laws that would guide such action.
By Edna Smalle
Wednesday October 05, 2016
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