The first guiding principle of the recently gazetted Integrity Commission (Amend-ment of Code of Conduct) Order 2017 states that a person in public life shall be accountable to the public for his or her decisions and actions and “shall submit himself or herself to scrutiny and criticism.”
This is one of the ten guiding principles that form part of the proposed amended Act, which will now have to go to the National Assembly before it becomes law.
The gazetting of the amendments come over one year after a reworked version of the draft code of conduct, meant to regulate both the public and private lives of public officials, including ministers and members of parliament, was handed over to Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo by Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman.
The code, which was promised in the coalition government’s
