President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja described the Public Complaints Commission (PCC) as the best-suited agency to domicile the whistleblowing policy of the federal government.
The president was responding to requests by the Chief Commissioner of the Commission, Abimbola Ayo-Yusuf, and members of the management team during a courtesy visit.
He also thanked the commission for conferring him the award of the GRAND OMBUDSMAN OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, pledging to continue to do his best in expanding the frontiers of anti-corruption, rule of law and good governance in Nigeria.
On the requests by the commission, the president said: “I want to assure you that the commission would be considered as the agency where the policy will be domiciled given your widespread network of offices and the fact that your mandate on the referral of complaints with criminal contents to appropriate law enforcement agencies makes your commission the best-suited agency for domiciling whistleblowing policy of the federal government.’’
The president also promised speedy consideration of the commission’s application to own a radio station to facilitate the dissemination of its activities to the citizenry and to enhance its public enlightenment programmes.
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