Yewande Sadiku

Yewande Sadiku (born 27 July 1972) is a Nigerian investment banker and former public servant. She was the executive secretary and CEO of the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission from 8 November 2016 to 24 September 2021. Quotes I believe in the value of governance and compliance. Public agencies also have a duty of accountability. Freedom of Information (FOI) compliance is only one aspect of the governance requirements of public agencies. The FOI Act has defined very clear expectations, which make it easy to understand the requirements and ensure compliance. There’s been a marked improvement. We are still not at 100% compliance with all governance obligations, but we have almost achieved that with FOI. We now have a dozen reports we publish every quarter that we never published before. It makes engagements with many stakeholders easy, because we already have something that’s fairly recent prepared in advance. We were commended in December 2019, by the Ethics and Corporate Compliance Institute of Nigeria. In August 2020, we were applauded by the Ministry of Justice FOI representative during our appearance before the House Committee on FOI. We were also commended by the Committee itself. We have now been awarded second prize twice (in the 2019 and 2020) in FOI awards organised by six civil society organisations. My FOI hero is actually Waziri Adio, who was executive secretary of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). He gave me guidance on what they did and the support they got and that helped to get us going. In terms of the FOI rankings though, in 2020, the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) ranked first and NIPC ranked second. In 2019, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) ranked first and Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) and NIPC ranked second. Proactive FOI compliance, which I consider to be the model, requires you to proactively prepare the information that the law requires in advance of a public request. So, the more FOI compliant an agency is, the better they actually keep their records and the more ready they are to respond to all sorts of requests. We find at NIPC that engagements with a variety of stakeholders are easier because our record keeping and proactive disclosures have improved. This answers the question from NIPC’s perspective. From the public perspective, all public agencies have an obligation of accountability. External links Category:Businesswomen from Nigeria Category:1972 births Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:Living people