Members of Anambra State Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation M&E committee have been urged to approach their task with sense of love and patriotism to the state.
RoLAC Coordinator in Anambra State, Dr Josephine Onah, made the call during a baseline survey preparatory meeting for the M&E committee members at the state and local government levels.
Onah explained that the preparatory meeting aligns with the Action Plan which the committee developed during an earlier training programme in February 2025.
“This is like going back to the basics. After conducting the baseline, it will give us the impetus to continue with other activities in your work plan.
“We have to see the current situation in our various MDAs and local governments as to know what action or what progress we can make.
“That will help us progress with other activities and eventually get the anticipated positive results.
“This will be a result that will overlap into our fourth year. The baseline survey is to ascertain where Anambra is with respect to the implementation of ANSACS.
“And before you know it, we will have been able to handle one or two reforms. Thank you so much for coming. And thank you for your dexterity all this while.
She urged members to approach it with the spirit of patriotism ensuring that the outcome of the exercise reflect the realities across the MDAs and LGAs.
Attention to current MDAs’ realities
The lead consultant to RoLAC, Professor Ada Chidi-Igbokwe, urged members of the M&E committee to pay close attention to current realities across the MDAs.
“This will help us to have a solid ground to place our intervention. This baseline is for you to know where they are.
“Pay attention to things that are not there and note them down. The next time you are going, you expect them to have made improvement on those things.
“For the fact that you have done the baseline, you will be able to ascertain whether they have made progress or not.
“But if you didn’t do the baseline, you will not know whether they are moving forward or retrogressing.
“Today, we will look at the list of teams that will go for the baseline and tweak where necessary.
“We will also look at the monitoring tools – the things you will be using later to assess the MDAs/LGAs.
“We have a template of data collection tool. You will need to modify it to suit our purpose in Anambra.
RoLAC interventions lauded
The Chairperson of the M&E Committee, Mrs Chioma Ezechukwu, appreciated RoLAC for organizing the meeting and all its interventions in the state.
“I thank RoLAC for their tireless efforts towards ensuring that corruption is combated in our state and to ensure good governance.
“To fellow participants here, I encourage us to pay prompt attention to whatever we are going to discuss today.
“Let’s consider ourselves as important stakeholders in the anti-corruption campaign.
“Let’s take our role very seriously. We are here today to chart a way forward on baseline. Let’s bring up brilliant ideas.
“Spare no efforts in helping RoLAC’s anti-corruption programme to succeed in Anambra,” she pleaded.
In his brief remarks, the M&E committee Co-Chair, Mr Alfred Ajayi, described the baseline as a critical tool for other activities of the committee in 2025.
“The baseline is the basis for whatever we want to do. At the end of the day, we are still going to assess our success against this baseline.
So, let’s approach it with that sense of patriotism. Also, I want to encourage the non-state actors to see their role as even more critical.
“This is because due to affinity with government, the state actors may have some limitations at some points.
“Those of us who are non-state actors should be ready to fill that gap and salvage the situation.
“Let’s all deploy all that we have to make this a success,” he urged.
