Crown Agents Parley Anti-graft on Procurement

Crown Agents, an international development agency, on Thursday, 23rd of May, 2024 pledged collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in handling procurement and associated issues.

Speaking during a visit by a team of in-country and UK-based officials of the social enterprise to the EFCC’s corporate headquarters, its Country Director, Nkiru Anonyo noted that Crown Agents “over the years have worked with the EFCC”, stressing that her Agency still desired to collaborate with the Commission in different areas.”

“One area that will be of interest to the Commission is our expertise on procurement and personnel management. Crown Agents have well-established procurement capabilities, supporting governments in different areas. The key reason why we are here today is to talk about our training and development areas. We want the Commission to understand the capabilities of Crown Agents. We have technical ability to support, monitor processes and risk assessment, even co-development of programmes,” she said.

In his contribution, a member of the team, identified as Mr. Aaron Smart, who is the Business Development Lead, touched on providing

“international and in-country trainings and training in the areas of leadership and management, governance and strategy, public procurement, financial management,” as well as on trainings with direct relevance to the Commission’s mandate “ in combating corruption, combating cybercrime, cyber-security, and artificial intelligence. These are the areas where we can support the EFCC.” [CONTINUE READING HERE]>>>>