Aliyu, mother of Maryam Sanda, who allegedly stabbed her husband, Bilyaminu Halilu, to death on November 19, was accused of misappropriating N57 million as the Executive Director of Aso Savings and Loans Plc by the ICPC.
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It may be recalled that the Federal Government, in 2005, under the Monetisation Policy of ex-President Olusegun Obansanjo, sold some of its houses occupied by federal civil servants to them in order to cut down the cost of governance.
This was contained in a memorandum it presented to the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption during a public hearing organised on a bill to amend the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.
Okoduwa said the request was one of the proposals made by the commission through a memorandum submitted to the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption.
The Benue State Controller of Prisons, Peter Pevigo, disclosed this in Makurdi on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
In a statement to mark this year’s International Anti-Corruption Day in Abuja, Mahmoud said the issue of corruption has led to loss of confidence in Nigeria by its citizens both home and abroad due to the activities of fraudsters, corrupt public officials and bad governance by leaders
The 52-day long training programme is in line with the existing collaboration between the NDIC and the EFCC towards enhancing the capacity of the EFCC’s staff
He said that procurement was one of the indices used by the Transparency International in assessing countries, saying it is the basis for establishment of anticorruption agencies by the government in the country
Ekpo Nta, the Chairman of ICPC, disclosed this in Abuja at the opening ceremony of a sensitisation programme organised for officials of examination bodies and other stakeholders.
Adeoluwa said the commission was making efforts to locate the whereabout of the accused person who had moved out of her apartment.
The ICPC counsel said that the surety had, however, assured the commission that he would find out the whereabout of the accused person and prayed the court for an adjournment
He said the Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Colonel Hameed Ali, had established a committee that would oversee the auction processes
Sources close to the commission also disclosed that the Federal Government was no longer comfortable with the public perception of President Mohammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption fight as being selective and most importantly, Governor Ayodele Fayose’s claim that complaints from the State to the ICPC and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission about how the immediate past All Progressives Congress government of Fayemi fleeced the State were ignored
Before the intervention of the ICPC, the company, through newspaper advertorials, had raked in the huge sum by offering job seekers mouth-watering remunerations through internship with foreign multinational companies and manufacturing industries
Already, the anti-graft Commission in a communique agreed to the process of urging the youths, mostly students in the tertiary institutions, to monitor the disbursement of the bailout funds released by the Federal Government to the states, while reporting any fraud associated with the process of disbursements
This is s tall but achievable ambition. Certainly he cannot do it alone. He has a plethora of anti-corruption agencies, security outfits and other law enforcement bodies to assist him. However, they too cannot achieve meaningful results without the support and cooperation of the people because corruption is largely a function of people’s attitude
“It became very clear to all that, the management knows that the existence of Student Association will paralyze myriad of irregularities from which the management presently benefits, hence, the efforts to deny students, their rights. While they had consistently failed to get our law graduates to be mobilized for law school since 2013, failed to get our graduates mobilized for NYSC despite receiving fees in this regard, they are vehemently making efforts to cripple justice in their favor
An Executive member in the ICPC, Prof. Olu Aina, standing in for the commission’s Chairman, Ekpo Nta, disclosed this during a meeting with the Senate of the National Association of Nigerian Students at the Commission’s Board Room in Abuja
The defendant is facing a 14-count charge bothering on advanced fee fraud, racketeering and money laundering
Bello noted that passengers coming into the country were now testifying of the good conducts by the airport officials as against the open bribery and corruption known hitherto at the airports
He said: “Instead of setting up a commission of inquiry, the state government would make good use of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission Commission and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to recover any stolen public money from former political office holders