Cairo – Morocco has made the prevention of and fight against corruption a national priority, as well as a lever for sustainable and integrated development, enabling it to meet its citizens’ aspirations and preserve their rights, stressed, on Tuesday in Cairo, Mohamed Bachir Rachdi, President of the National Authority for Probity, Prevention, and fight against corruption (INPPLC).

Speaking at the opening of the 5th session of the Conference of States Parties to Arab Anti Corruption Convention, initiated by the Arab League in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Rachdi noted that, as part of the transition to a new era in the fight against corruption, the Moroccan legislature had adopted an advanced law extending the prerogatives of the INPPLC, as an independent constitutional body, setting the strategic orientations of the State’s policy in this field in all its dimensions.

Several structuring projects have been set up to deepen objective knowledge of corruption, its sources
and its consequences, through the elaboration of methodological and field studies in order to develop a large detailed database for greater objectivity and accuracy, he added.

In this regard, he stated that the INPPLC has also evaluated governmental plans and policies implemented during the last two decades, in order to identify the gains to be consolidated, as well as the gaps to be considered and the obstacles hindering the achievement of the set objectives.

He also stressed that this session is being held in an international context characterized by the inability of most countries in the world to achieve significant progress in the fight against corruption, which calls for broad mobilization to overcome this scourge and limit its spread.

Morocco is represented in this major event by a delegation led by Rachdi and includes representatives from the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, the Ministry of Justice, the Kingdom’s Judicial Agency, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Par
ticipants at the conference will discuss ways of consolidating Arab anti-corruption efforts, promoting cooperation and sharing information on corruption, and curbing corruption at its roots through sharing expertise and experiences to strengthen preventive measures aimed at tackling this scourge.

The Arab Anti Corruption Convention, concluded on December 21, 2010, aims to promote joint cooperation between States Parties to activate and strengthen mechanisms for preventing and combating corruption in all its forms, and to uphold the values of integrity, transparency, accountability and the supremacy of the law.

Source: Agence Marocaine De Presse