Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri has charged the leadership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) to maintain the high professional standard and integrity the accounting body has been known for in Nigeria over the years.
Diri gave the charge yesterday when he received a high-powered delegation from ICAN led by its 59th President, Dr Innocent Okwuosa, at Government House in Yenagoa.
The Governor, who spoke through his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, said integrity and proficiency constitute the glory of the accounting profession.
He noted that ICAN should do everything within its power not to lower the bar of professional competence in the institute.
He said discipline was not only essential but quite indispensable in the accounting profession, and called on the ICAN national leadership to always ensure that those who violate its professional ethics were made to bear the consequences of their actions to serve as deterrence to others.
Diri, who noted that the main policy thrust of his administration was education, said the government would key into ICAN’s mandatory continuing professional development programmes to groom more chartered accountants from the state and give them a strategic role in the public service.
