By Nkechi Eze
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has appointed Mrs Temilade Aderemi Okesanjo as Resident Consultant (Strategy and Communications) in a strategic move aimed at deepening institutional alignment, strengthening organisational effectiveness, and enhancing public engagement across the Commission’s operations.
The appointment, which takes immediate effect, marks the first time Strategy has been formally integrated into a Resident Consultant portfolio at the Commission, underscoring ICPC’s evolving, forward-looking approach to prevention, institutional integrity, and impact-driven governance.
In an official statement, the Spokesperson and Head of Media and Public Communications, Okor Odey, said the new role is designed to strengthen the systematic integration of strategy into ICPC’s day-to-day activities, while ensuring that the Commission’s priorities and interventions are clearly articulated and responsibly communicated to stakeholders and the public.
According to the statement, Mrs Okesanjo will support the Commission’s work in two core areas. On Strategy, she will help ensure that ICPC’s priorities, engagements, and interventions are deliberate, coherent, and fully aligned with its statutory mandate. On Communications, she will drive clarity, consistency, and credibility in how these priorities are conveyed, with a view to building trust and sustaining public confidence.
Mrs Okesanjo brings over 16 years of combined experience in the public and private sectors to the role. She began her career in the financial services industry at Ecobank Nigeria before moving into public service, where she served in the Ministry of Transportation as well as the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
In 2018, she resigned from the civil service to establish Woodford Consulting Company, through which she has led high-level strategy and implementation advisory engagements for public sector institutions and development-focused organisations.
Over the years, she has advised at the highest levels of governance in Nigeria, including the Presidency, several federal ministries, departments and agencies, as well as international organisations, with much of her work centred on policy implementation, institutional reform, and public-sector governance.
The Commission stated that the appointment is part of a broader objective to embed strategy more deeply into ICPC’s operational culture, strengthen internal coherence, reinforce preventive interventions, and ensure that institutional actions translate into measurable and sustainable anti-corruption outcomes.
With the addition of Mrs Okesanjo to its leadership support structure, the ICPC says it is better positioned to sharpen its strategic focus, amplify its public engagement, and further advance its mandate of combating corruption through prevention, enforcement, and systems strengthening.
