Madagascar rolls out anti-corruption plan across ministries
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L'Express de Madagascar
Illustrative image · Evlogia Pictures · Pexels · Licence PexelsMadagascar’s Committee for Safeguarding Integrity has sent each ministry an anti-corruption plan tailored to its responsibilities, including prosecutions and monitoring of legal cases. Ministers are now presenting the strategy, with O’Gascar Fenosoa the first to outline it in the public media, according to a committee source cited by L’Express de Madagascar.
The implementation plan for Madagascar’s national anti-corruption strategy is ready to be applied in all ministries, with measures including legal proceedings against those responsible for corruption. The Committee for Safeguarding Integrity (CSI), which drew up the scheme, sent it to the government departments two weeks ago, according to a source at the organisation cited by L’Express de Madagascar.
Each ministry has a plan adapted to its responsibilities, particularly in the sports and mining sectors and regarding risks linked to the export of products. Since this week, ministers have been presenting their implementation strategy in the public media, at the request of Madagascar’s head of state Michael Randrianirina; the Minister of Communication and Culture, O’Gascar Fenosoa, opened the series of presentations.
The implementation comes as the High Constitutional Court authorises the Anti-Corruption Pole to try former Malagasy leaders and the Bianco prosecutes 1,638 people on suspicion of corruption, two reports published on 29 October.
