Accountability Lab Honours Civil Servants

As part of activities to commemorate the 2023 International Anti-Corruption Day, a non governmental organisation, Accountability Lab, has honoured five civil servants who have demonstrated integrity in performing their duties.

They include a legal practitioner, Catherine Ogunjebi, primary health care practitioner, Lois Akut, Mr. Samuel Ogundare, health care practitioner, Wode Seiyefa and an educator, Ogechukwu Nkwuda.

The civil servants were recognised at award night themed: ‘Naming and Faming Honest Government Officials’ organised by Accountability Lab, in collaboration with Luminate, MacArthur, Ford Foundation, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) yesterday in Abuja.

The country director, Odeh Friday, stressed the significance of recognising civil servants who uphold ethical principles, adding that the awardees were chosen based on their outstanding track records and notable achievements in upholding ethical standards within their respective areas of responsibility.

He said: “So, basically for civil servants working across MDAs across the country, they are the ones whom we’ve identified today to name and fame. Five of them are from over 2,500 nominations that we have received nationwide.

“The choice of civil servants, they are the ones that do the work when it comes to service delivery for citizens. If you go to any MDAs, they are the ones whom you will interact with.”

National coordinator, SERVICOM, Mrs Nnena Akajemeli, said: “The bottom line of this is raising and praising those who excel at their duty post. They are painstakingly going through filtering out saints from sinners.”