{"id":56778,"date":"2024-11-22T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=56778"},"modified":"2024-11-22T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T15:37:21","slug":"reps-to-probe-age-falsification-anti-corruption-units-in-mdas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/22\/reps-to-probe-age-falsification-anti-corruption-units-in-mdas\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps to Probe Age Falsification, Anti-Corruption Units in MDAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Samson Adeyanju\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into the operations of Anti-Corruption Transparency Units (ACTU) across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), following concerns over persistent corruption.<\/p>\n<p>In a resolution passed Thursday, lawmakers tasked the committees on public service matters, special duties, and national planning to invite the Head of Service to provide details for verifying civil servants&#8217; records, specifically to track down offenders engaged in age falsification.<\/p>\n<p>This probe follows two motions raised by Shehu Umar Ajilo and Yusuf Ahmed Badau.<\/p>\n<p>Ajilo highlighted the establishment of ACTUs in 2001, 2003, and 2016 to combat corruption in MDAs. Despite these efforts, Ajilo expressed concern over ongoing corrupt practices.<\/p>\n<p>Badau, stressing the critical role of civil servants in nation-building, called for urgent action on age falsification, citing alarming unemployment rates driven by the practice.<\/p>\n<p>With Nigeria&#8217;s unemployment rate at 5.3%, the probe aims to hold offenders accountable and safeguard the integrity of the public service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samson Adeyanju\u00a0 The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into the operations of Anti-Corruption Transparency Units (ACTU) across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), following concerns over persistent corruption. In a resolution passed Thursday, lawmakers tasked the committees on public service matters, special duties, and national planning to invite the Head of Service to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":56779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56780,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56778\/revisions\/56780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}