THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Matters Commission (ICPC), on Friday said it would monitor budget implementation in government offices through Information Technology (IT).

Mr Ekpo Nta, Acting Chairman of ICPC stated this at the 2012 budget defence of the commission before the House of Representatives Committee on Anti- Corruption, National Ethics and Values in Abuja.

Nta maintained that the commission would also use information technology to track activities of its staff nationwide.

He attributed the paucity of fund facing the commission to the lack of understanding of the functions of the commission.

“With better understanding of what our roles are in this country, we will begin to see the kind of funding that is genuinely required to drive the anti-corruption war,”he said.

He said that the commission would redesign all its systems to step up the fight against corruption in the country.

On the NNPC, he said the commission would ensure that all cases of corruption were put in permanent check.

He stated that the commission would need international assistance to carry out a successful review of the happenings at NNPC.

“We will need international assistance to do a successful review of that system,”he said.

According to him, every Nigerian has a role to play in the fight against corruption which had become endemic in the country.

Nta said that in a renewed resolve to fight corruption, the commission had ensure that its personnel  were free of all corrupt practices.

He said that in the past four years, the anti-graft agency had not bought any operational vehicle to facilitate its operations.

“I will prefer a situation where we cut down money for maintenance to procure new vehicles,” he said.

Rep. James Faleke (ACN-Lagos), the chairman of the committee said that the National Assembly would ensure that the ICPC  got all it required for it to function effectively.

“As a Parliament, we will make the anti-graft system work,” he said. Adding that, “Nigerians have lost confidence in the ways things are done.”

He noted that Nigerians were looking up to the commission to check the menace of corruption in the country.

The Lawmaker regretted that the commission had not made any effort to scrutinise the books of  NNPC as advised by the committee over its transactions in respect of fuel subsidy.

“We have asked you to go after NNPC but nothing has been done ,”he said.

The sum of N25 billion allocated to the commission and other three agencies by the budget office was described as grossly inadequate for the agencies to function effectively.

The other three agencies include, Code of Conduct Bureau, NDLEA and EFCC.