The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has unveiled plans to work with the Code of Conduct Bureau to ensure that public officials who gave false information on their assets on oath are identified and sanctioned with prosecution.
Also the Commission is set to investigate those who mismanaged resources allocated for educational development and denied the institutions the required operational capacity to impact knowledge on the students.
The Chairman of the ICPC, Ekpo Nta, in an interview on Africa Independent Television in Abuja, said the move was one of the major fallouts of ongoing collaboration with the CCB and other agencies at synergising their capacities in the anti-graft war through collective approach.
Nta described those providing false information about their property and others assets under oath as ignorant of the legal implications of such actions.
He said the Commission would work on information availed it by the Bureau to determine the veracity or otherwise of such claims and prosecute any officer found to have made false declarations.
The ICPC boss said the Commission was adopting a new approach in the fight against corruption by focusing on the root causes of anti-social behaviour among the people, using the education sector as the platform for driving the new initiatives.
He said: “Part of the collaboration we are doing with the CCB is that where we believe that some of the declarations are not what they are, it will send them to us to help it do the leg work and I would like to tell you that every investigation we carry out that relates to a public officer as defined by the constitution, the first thing we do is to ask for his forms from the CCB to find out what he fills there.
“So, for those who are doing anticipatory filling, it is a matter of time and as a matter of fact, they might actually be building houses for other people because they might not put their names but put in other people’s names and when they get out of office move to reclaim those properties and they are refused the opportunity of doing so.
“Are they coming to law enforcement to help them enforce recovery of such houses?”
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