EKPO NTA – FORMER CHAIRMAN, INDEPENDENT CORRUPT PRACTICES AND
OTHER RELATED OFFENCES COMMISSION (ICPC)
Ekpo Una Owo Nta is a lawyer
and former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other
Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
Ekpo Una Owo Nta was born in Ndukpoise, Nsit Ubium Local
Government Area of Akwa Ibom
State on 12 October 1952. He started his primary education at Zaria, Kaduna State in 1958 and
finally finished at St. Anthony`s Primary School in Ibadan, Oyo State in 1964.
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| Barr. Ekpo Nta - Former Chairman, ICPC |
In September 1964, he commenced his Secondary School at
Loyola College, Ibadan and completed
at Hope Waddel Training Institute, Calabar in 1971.
Between 1972 and 1980, he attended the University of Ibadan where he
attended the preliminary Science Programme in Chemistry, Physics and Botany. He
later obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) in Political Science majoring in International
Relations in 1977, and a M.Sc. Political Science majoring in Public Policy and
Statistics in 1980.
He also obtained LL.B. (Hons) Civil Law majoring in
Public International Institutions at the University of Calabar between
1983 and 1987. He attended the Nigerian Law School, Lagos in
1987 and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1988.
He had served as a Producer/Editor in Nigerian Television Authority in Kano producing
special documentaries especially on youth and community development matters in
1977. In addition he anchored several discussion programmes.
Between 1978 and 1985 he served as a Human Resources and
Training Officer in the Cross River State Water Board
where he rose up to become a Management level Officer and Acting Secretary of
the Board. In the latter position he was part of the team that initiated and
managed several urban and rural potable water supply schemes in the State for
over 7 million citizens in addition to designing training and career programmes
for young Engineers, hydro geologists and other professionals in the public
water industry.
He was appointed as a Senior Assistant Registrar of the University
of Cross River (now University
of Uyo) in 1986 where he served until 1987. He was responsible
for setting up a modern Examination Records Department for the newly
established University as it's Records Officer. He was responsible for the
final collation of all examination results in the university, advising the
Senate on examination records, production of manuals, new processes, and the
issuance of transcripts to third parties. When new States were created in
Nigeria, he subsequently moved on to serve as the Head, Personnel, Manpower
Development & Training in the newly established Akwa Ibom
State Water Corporation, Uyo.
Mr. Nta served as Counsel with the Ministry of Justice, Uyo and later
as the Deputy Liaison Officer/Lawyer at the Office of the Akwa Ibom State
Military Governor, Lagos in 1989. In
these capacities he was responsible for rendering legal advice to government,
taking part in arbitration matters and also providing intergovernmental and
consular services at the Liaison Office.
In 1990, he was appointed Chief Administrative Officer
and a Management Staff of the Akwa Ibom
State Agricultural Development Project, Uyo. This
Agency was in collaboration between the Federal, State Government and the World Bank designed to
introduce modern farming methods and commercial processes to local farmers.
From March 1993 to June 2010 he worked with the Oil
Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC) now referred to as Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC as Director
of Administration and Human Resource Development. In this Agency he was part of
the Management Team that developed and implemented security services, human
resources and physical infrastructure for the petroleum-rich but
environmentally degraded/polluted Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
Mr. Nta was sworn in as a Board Member/Acting Chairman of
the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other
Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in November 2011 and was
appointed substantive Chairman on 17 October 2012 by President
Goodluck Jonathan for a five-year term following the concurrence of the
Senate of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.
In March 2015, ICPC made public the status of criminal
cases within its precinct as at March 2015. The list contained 267 criminal
cases between 2001 and 2015, and 142 civil cases between 2007 and 2015.
Mr. Nta has attended many Professional Courses within and
outside Nigeria and is also a member of Professional bodies like the
International Association of Prosecutors, Nigerian Bar Association (NBA),
Nigerian Association for Public Administration and Management, etc.
He has travelled widely and has a sound knowledge of
Information and Communication Technology. In addition, he is the proprietor of
a Nursery/Primary School in Uyo Nigeria
founded in 2001 to provide good quality early child education especially for
disadvantaged children in the State.
In December 2015, Mr. Ekpo Nta was elected as one of the
seven new members of the Board of Governors of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA),
Austria.
He was elected into the IACA Board of Governors to
represent the African Regional Group during the Assembly of State Parties
Conference of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Vienna,
Austria. He is the first African and Nigerian to be so elected which signals a
great honour for him and international acknowledgement of upsurge of Nigeria’s
prevention activities in the anti-corruption fight.
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