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BUREAU ADVISES CHILDREN TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST CORRUPTION:  The Director, Education and Advisory Services, Code of Conduct Bureau, Dr. (Mrs.) Uyim Akpabio has advised Nigerian Children to report cases of corrupt practices around them and be anti-corruption crusaders.   ----------   The public is called upon to take a stake in the campaign against Corruption. Barrister Yakubu Tuktur, the Acting Chairman Code of Conduct Bureau reiterated the fact that Democracy by virtue of the space provided for the participation of all stakeholders, is designed to bring forth dividends to all stakeholders, in this case, the public.   -----   ASSETS DECLARATION A MUST FOR ALL PUBLIC OFFICERS: "The Code of Conduct Bureau is alive to its responsibility and will ensure that all public officers declare their assets in line with the laws governing the operations of the Bureau"    -----   For more news visit our NEWS section or PRESS RELEASES.
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Collaboration with Local & International Bodies
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The Bureau has established extensive collaboration with local and international bodies to enhance the fight against corruption by creating a wide and fully representative network.  Over the years, the media, education sector, civil society, and other government agencies have joined the Bureau in the anti-corruption crusade.  Specifically NTA has supported the Bureau by airing some of its programmes,  Schools have assisted during our Children’s Forum and other children’s programmes to instill the anti-corruption consciousness in children.  Bodies like Exam Ethics and Transparency In Nigeria (TIN), Global Rights among other NGOs have involved the Bureau in seminars and workshop.   A mutual relationship exist among the anti-corruption agencies like Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the State Security Services (SSS), the Police and the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) among others.
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Some State Governments in collaboration with the Bureau have organized Workshops for their public officers especially those at the Local Government levels.  This include Kano, Ebonyi, Kwara, Katsina, Niger, and Akwa Ibom States and we are deeply grateful to them.
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Also, the Bureau has enjoyed good working relationship with organizations like United States Agency for International Development/Office for Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI), which sponsored our Public Forum in 2002.  The Commonwealth Office and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have also sponsored some of our training programmes.  We have also interacted with the UN office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and played host to the Ministry of Supervision in China.   We undertook study tours to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Hong Kong as well as the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau (CPIB) of Singapore.  This is in realization of the fact that the global fight against Corruption cannot be won from a lone turf.
It is realised that the task of sanitizing the Nigerian Society is quite Herculean. It is therefore not possible for one Organisation to bear that onerous task alone.

The Bureau shall therefore work in partnership with other government agencies, organised groups, professional association, Non-Governmental Organisations, Community - Based Organisations and the general public. It shall take good advantage of organisations with structures for grass root mobilisation such as the National Orientation Agency, Public Complaints Commission, the National Youth Service Corps, the Nigeria police Force, the State Security Service, the Nigeria union of Journalists (NUJ), the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Youth Associations, women Association, etc.

Professional groups like the Association of Accountants, Auditors, and Engineers shall attract some attention because of the impact of their professional inputs into government business.
As part of the Bureau's strategy for forging alliance with these groups, it shall from time to time liaise with them, organise public fora and any other interactive fora.
The Bureau on its part expects the public to show wholehearted commitment in this campaign by reporting cases of corruption promptly and forming a network against corruption.