After the formation of Economic and Financial Commission’s (EFCC) Anti-Corruption Revolution Campaign (ANCOR) in 2009, NDEBUMOG was elected as Rivers State Coordinator of ANCOR. Later in ANCOR’s National Convention, NDEBUMOG was elected unopposed and as south-south (zonal) representative to ANCOR’s National Coordinating Committee (Board) under the EFCC. ANCOR operationalized under the EFCC through support from European Union’s support to Anti-Corruption Agencies in Nigeria. ANCOR’s platform was later mishandled by overzealous attitude of some civil society actors, which led to the dissolution and disbandment of ANCOR’s structure by EFCC. Between 2014 and 2016, other civil society actors, through collaboration with the EFCC came together to formed Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Support Network (ACE- Network) and readmitted NDEBUMOG into its membership.On engagements with Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), the Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group was elected to NEITI’s-Civil Society Steering Committee in 2010.
Later in 2011, the organization was elected as Civil Society Liaison Organization of NEITI/Head of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s (NEITI) Civil Society Steering Committee. A position that subsisted till 2012. NDEBUMOG’s representative was part of Nigeria’s delegation to the Paris EITI Conference in 2011. It was an event that the 1st EITI’s Validation for Nigeria was announced. Within this period, precisely in 2010, NDEBUMOG was elected to lead a mega (national)- Coalition for Accountability and Transparency in Extractive Industries, Forestry and Fisheries in Nigeria (CATEIFFN). The coalition’s membership included, Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), Miners Association of Nigeria (MAN), et al. It was during NDEBUMOG’s headship of CATEIFFN that the end-to-end research on the character and nature of Nigeria’s extractive industry was unveiled at Yar’ Adua’s Centre, Abuja. The end-to-end (research publication) is (evidently) in the libraries of several Nigerian Universities. Upon completion of the first tenure of CATEIFFN’s leadership (2010/2011), NDEBUMOG was reelected (involuntarily) for a second tenure. NDEBUMOG’s management objected and resigned. It is on record that NDEBUMOG is a critical stakeholder in Nigeria’s EITI processes. A research into NEITI’s archives can validates this fact always!
Around 2006, NDEBUMOG consolidated (collaborative) partnerships with fiscal entities, including, the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP), State House. BPP was (then) known as Budget Monitoring & Price Intelligence Unit (BMPIU). Collaborating with other civil society groups, NDEBUMOG played a critical role through advocacies and (legislative) lobbying for final passage of Nigeria’s Public Procurement Act in 2007. Following NDEBUMOG’s strategic relationship with the BPP, NDEBUMOG was appointed facilitator of five (5) BPP’s zonal sensitization programmes to enlightened Nigerians about the Public Procurement Act in Nigeria’s south-south geopolitical zone. These events took place in Calabar (2008), Port Harcourt (2009), Asaba (2011) and Benin City (2012). There was also BPP’s Federal Government Contractors Forum in Asaba in 2010. NDEBUMOG was the lead technical facilitator at the Forum.
The above, added with capacity strengthening, information sharing among civil society allies and other ACAs provides directions on NDEBUMOG’s anticorruption work. NDEBUMOG understand petitions thresholds for corruption reporting and among few experts throughout African continent that undertakes corruption shadow analysis.
