The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has organised a comprehensive two-week leadership training for some selected staff to improve on knowledge gaps as part of measures to strengthen their abilities to deliver on the mandate of the Commission.
The training which is being held in Abuja had about 30 participants drawn from different departments of the Commission.
While speaking during the opening ceremony on Tuesday, the Chairman of ICPC, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN charged participants to take the training seriously as one of his missions in office was to empower the intellectual capacity of members of staff of the Commission.
Dr. Aliyu, who was represented by the Provost of ACAN, Professor. Olatunde Babawale said on assumption of office in December last year, he had expressed his determination to ensure that ICPC focuses more on the preventive aspect of the mandate of the Commission, saying that “to focus on the preventive aspect of the mandate of the ICPC requires that training be taken seriously.
“One of my biggest missions in the office is to empower staff intellectually, and that intellectual empowerment translates into training and teaching. So, the programme that will be mounted in the next two weeks is called the Train-the-Trainers Programme.
‘And we all know that the Train-the-Trainers programme implies that an onerous responsibility is put on you, as individual staff members, to deliver on the mandate of the Commission.
“For you to be able to deliver at an optimal level, there is a need to improve on your knowledge, to improve on your skill, to improve on your expertise, so that you can transfer this knowledge, this skill, this expertise to others. By so doing, we broaden the canvas of staff within the Commission that can take up the mantle of leadership and also guide others,” he said.
The ICPC boss also expressed hope that at the end of the training, the Commission would have a larger number of people that are capable of delivering essential training services just as he urged them to believe in themselves and have that self-confidence to deliver on any given tasks that would be required from them.
“I think what is also most important is your confidence. You must have the confidence that you can deliver. Standing before a group of people, and imparting knowledge to them requires some confidence. If you don’t have that confidence, you cannot deliver. So, I am confident that those of us here today would be the core of the individuals in the ICPC who will take us to higher heights.