Anti-corruption: Firm launches Public Procurement Monitoring System

Dataphyte, a leading firm in the provision of access to data through its anti-corruption campaign has launched “Anfani”, a programme that links public procurement data from the federal and state governments with beneficial ownership information of government contractors.

This comes in commemoration of the 2022 Anti-Corruption Day, with the theme: ‘UNCAC at 20: Uniting the World Against Corruption.

The firm, in a press statement, stated that Anfani, coined from a yoruba word “benefit”, is an intervention that leverages open data and connects the crucial dots between procurement and beneficial ownership for journalists, civic actors and anti-graft organisations to better fight corruption by exposing it and punishing offenders, adding that its a step forward in the organisation’s objective.

According to the statement, “Dataphyte has, in the last two years, been at the forefront of providing access to data through civic technology, data-driven storytelling, and capacity building to drive fiscal transparency and accountability, and effective service delivery across all the regions of Nigeria, all of which as is crucial to improving development outcomes and promoting Peace and Security. Anfani is yet another step in advancing this work.

“Nigeria is ranked 154th out of 180 nations in Transparency International’s (TI) 2021 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). This is evidence of the endemic corruption that plagues the country from the front lines of national governance to the subnational levels.”

Describing the platform, the founder and executive director of Dataphyte, Joshua Olufemi, stated that the platform offers a tripartite benefit to accountability and anti-corruption stakeholders.

“First is the transparency on corporate entities servicing the public contracting sector in Nigeria. Second, it provides social network visualisation of the who-is-who in several sectors including minerals and energy resource exploration industry and lastly, it is a tool for connecting the dots within organized crime and illicit financial flow structures,” he explained.