Transparent Leadership International warned against corruption

                              
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The wide spread practices of corruption and other acts of unprofessionalism in the education sector has had a negative influence on many student's ability to adhere to ethical principles and norms such as integrity, accountability, transparency and even openness while in school.
 In most cases students are forced to pay bribes, steal, oppress and build clusters of violent networks in an effort to sail through the pressure and unethical demands made by their teachers, school prefects and even gatemen. A society where the environment of learning is perceived as a market place for the demand and supply of corruption and fraud will not be able to sustain itself in the long term as its citizens lose touch to values of equity, transparency, honesty, accountability and a sense of justice; considered key in driving development, growth, equitable distribution of wealth and well-being.
As active agents and advocates of participatory governance, inclusive development, integrity and justice, Transparent Leadership International (TLI) / ANTI-CORRUPTION UNIT strives to reverse the ongoing trend and cycle of corruption which has taken hold of the education sector in Nigeria by implementing series of training programs and initiatives with students in secondary and tertiary schools with the objective of cleaning out the mindset and culture of corruption that is building itself in our schools and learning environment and exposing young people at a tender age to a very high and costly alternative of corruption as far as our development and growth is concern. Engaging students in monitoring classroom corruption by teachers, extortion by school gatemen, and exchange of marks for sex by male teachers and payment of bribes to school prefects, have proven to be very effective in addressing corruption as it manifest.
The importance of engaging youth in anti-corruption cannot be overestimated. It can help change attitudes and mores and build zero-tolerance for corruption where the problem is seen as an acceptable fact of life.
Educating and bringing youth into the anti-corruption movement is a top priority. It’s our youth that will stanch the flow of graft tomorrow.
TLI is set to organize Transparency and Accountability weeks in high schools in Lagos State, Ogun State, FCT, Imo State, Rivers State, and Enugu State.
We are set to train students to curb corruption and increase transparency at the Government High Schools. Although schooling is supposed to be free of charge, in practice parents pay substantially, and both government and parents’ contributions for school operations are poorly managed by the school authorities, resulting in considerable “leakage”.
TLI  can provide input and assist with strategies to promote accountability. School managers mostly lack functional competencies to combat corruption and should be trained. Student stakeholder groups will be involved and Multi-stakeholder approach is required to fight corruption in a non-confrontational way.
If we are to fight corruption in the education sector, we have to bring in all stakeholders and most importantly the students. After all, it is the students who have most to gain from getting access to efficient and cost-effective education. And by converting the younger generation into “anti-corruption believers and activists”, we have a chance to establish a sustainable and growing anti-corruption effort.
WATCH OUT FOR TLI ANTI-CORRUPTION CREW IN YOUR SCHOOL THIS SEASON.
ISSUED BY BY:
EZE AMB DR HARRIS CHUMA(ONN,AGG)
NATIONAL COORDINATOR
TLI ANTI-CORRUPTION UNIT NIGERIA.
08034413206, [email protected]