Liberia: Accountability Lab Names Integrity Icons

The Accountability Lab Liberia has selected five persons from the education, security, health, anti-corruption, and infrastructure development sector as Integrity Icons for 2020.

Integrity Icon is a global campaign by Accountability Lab that is powered by citizens in search of honest government officials.

It aims to generate debate around the idea of integrity and demonstrate the importance of honesty and personal responsibility.

In Liberia, the Integrity Icons, who were selected from 30 nominations, include the Senior Compliance and Monitoring Officer at the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission, Titus Tikwa; the Principal of the J. J. Dickson United Methodist High School, Victor Nyanneh; and the Project Director for the Liberian-Swedish Feeder Road Project, Sumoiwuo Harris.

Others are Totoquelleh Clinic officer, Wanga Wanley, and a law enforcement officer trained by the United National Police (UNPOL), Eric Joboe.

The event, which was attended by individuals from the government, international development organisations, and civil society organisations, was held under the theme, ‘Integrity and Accountability: tools for strategic nation-building’.

‘Today, we live in a society in which those individuals with integrity are fighting to do the right things on one hand, while those individuals without integrity, on the other hand, are fighting those that are doing the right things to step aside for the wrong things to be done’, 2019 Integrity Icon, Samuel Ford, who gave the keynote speech, said.

Ford further called for the display of Integrity Icons on billboards to send a message to those working in the public sector to follow good examples.

He urged the Accountability Country Director, Lawrence Yealue, to strongly support and protect those who may want to use their positions to intimidate or wrongfully suspending an icon for simply doing the right thing.

The United Kingdom Ambassador to Liberia, Neil Bradley, commended the winners for being people of trust and urged them to uphold such attributes.

‘Act consistently within your value. Be the pride of this moment of doing the right thing and stay true to who you are’, Bradley said.

Source: Front Page Africa

Photo source: Integrity Icon

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