Dr Kabir Kabo, Director-General of Centre for Management Development (CMD) has warned unaccredited management training institutions and uncertified consultants to close shop or prepare to face the law.
Kabo advised the enlightened public and corporate bodies to demand proof of accreditation before patronising any institution, and advised qualified institutions and consultants to regularise their operations, adding that any certificate issued by unaccredited organisation is valueless.
Kabo gave the warning in a statement on Thursday in Abuja by his Special Assistant on Media, Alhaji Abdulkadir Ibrahim.
The warning was given in Kaduna during an accreditation visit to management consultants and training Institutions in the state.
Kabo said the Nigerian Council for Management Development Act gave it a regulatory role to sanction any management consultant or training institution that undertook training programme without accreditation.
CMD, which is a parastatal agency under the National Planning Commission is the operational arm of the council.
The visit took Kabo to some organisations, including Jheyah Nig. Ltd., PAN Training Centre, Shehu Shafi’i & Co. and Rafisa Safety and Management Consultants.
The DG added that the council is determined to ensure quality assurance, control and intervention in the operations of manpower and management developers.
He maintained that the responsibility of the council to accredit and ensure that people were operating within the ambit of the law would not be compromised.
Kabo says names of accredited management development institutes and certified consultants are published periodically by the council.
He said institutions such as the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON) and the Lagos Business School passed through the periodic scrutiny of the council.
-NAN
