By Yakubu Salisu, Kano
As part of it’s ongoing crusade against corruption, Centre for Information Technology, CITAD has partnered with secondary school teachers with the view to inculcate in the students, values that will help them shun corruption now and in future.
The training for the teachers which took place yesterday, is the third phase of series of workshops organized by the Centre to build the capacity of secondary school teachers in the state to serve as anti corruption club mentors.
Senior Programme Officer, CITAD, malam Isah Garba while delivering his welcome address noted that the negative impacts of the ‘evil’ called ‘corrouption’ cannot be exhausted.
According to him, the menace has been the major cause of high level of poverty recorded in the country and anywhere corruption is found.
He said, bad leadership experienced in the country with uncertain future has strong connections with corruption hence, the need to key into the phrase “catch them while they are young” so that a new generation of upright youths will be produced.
During the session, the participants were equiped with skills on how to coach their students to learn about corruption and how to fight it.
Understanding the Anti-Corruption Quiz System as designed by CITAD and Prepare them for the Anti-Corruption Quiz as well as understanding the negative impact of corruption on the society.
In his paper presentation, Hamza Ibrahim explained distinctions between grand corruption, petty corruption and political corruption.
According to him, grand corruption consists of acts committed at a high level of government that distorts policies or the central functioning of the state, enabling leaders to benefit at the
expense of the public good.
The petty corruption refers to everyday
abuse of entrusted power by low and mid-level public officials in their
interactions with ordinary citizens, who often are trying to access basic goods or services in place like hospitals, schools, police departments and other agencies.
While political corruption is a
manipulation of policies, institutions and rules of procedures in the allocation of resources and financing by political decision makers, who abuse their position to sustain their power, status and wealth.
Further more, Kamilu Isah presented a paper titled ‘Understanding the Anti-Corruption Quiz System as Designed by CITAD during which he stated that the Centre will make use of extra curricula activities to provide students with experience, knowledge and skills that otherwise would not be gained from the formal school curriculum.