Center canvases for women, youth involvement in fight against corruption

The Centre for Awareness on Justice and Accountability (CAJA) has called on Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission to adopt inclusive strategies that will accommodate marginal­ized groups in the fight against corruption in the state. Addressing a press confer­ence yesterday in Kano, the Director of the centre, Comrade Kabiru Sa’idu Dakata, said the commission […]

Center canvases for women, youth involvement in fight against corruption

The Centre for Awareness on Justice and Accountability (CAJA) has called on Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission to adopt inclusive strategies that will accommodate marginal­ized groups in the fight against corruption in the state.

Addressing a press confer­ence yesterday in Kano, the Director of the centre, Comrade Kabiru Sa’idu Dakata, said the commission should give room for the support and participa­tion of the youth, women and people with disability in the crusade.

“While we appreciate the strides made by the commis­sion to position itself to sustain the fight against corruption in the state, we believe there is room for improvement, partic­ularly in the area of adopting more inclusive strategies that will accommodate the support and participation of the mar­ginalized groups, especially youth, women and people with disability,” comrade Dakata said.

The director also called on the Kano state government to improve the welfare of the com­mission’s personnel in order to curtail the possible staff turno­ver that might affect the activi­ties of the commission.

Dakata further advocated for more enlightenment campaign on how the general public could report cases of corruption to the commission.

He commended Kano state government for establishing the commission in 2005.

The director applauded Gov­ernor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje for making the commission more functional by appointing competent persons, Muhuyi Magaji Rimingado as chairman.

He said the centre in collab­oration with Youth Alive Foun­dation (YAF) and with support from DFID, is currently imple­menting a project aimed at increasing youth participation in the fight against corruption (Y-PAC)programme in the state.