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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) made the submission on Monday at the opening of a one-day capacity building workshop for negotiators of international economic agreements, jointly organized by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and Inter-Agency Committee on Stopping Illicit Financial Flows from Nigeria

The Commission also arrested two members of a certificate forgery syndicate, Sunday Okpara and Abdulrahman Razak, for forging the certificate of the University of Abuja for the two officials of the FRSC.

The Chairman of the ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, while briefing journalists in Abuja, said the Commission will ensure the full implementation of the Manual, which provides step-by-step instructions compiled to help port users carry out routine operations in a simplified format.

This was contained in a Notice published by the anti-graft agency on Thursday

Owasanoye, who spoke at a capacity building workshop for members of the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption in Abuja, said corruption is responsible for all the negative indexes the country is known for.

Kazeem Afegbua, a member of the PDP, has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission for a probe of the party’s accounts.

The Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye (SAN), made this known while presenting the summary of the agency’s assets recovery, seizures and forfeitures when members of the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes visited its headquarters in Abuja on oversight

Prof. Owasanoye made the disclosure in his welcome remark at a physical and virtual zoom meeting to review the report on IFFs in relation to tax.

The Spokesperson of the ICPC, Azuka Ogogua, said the money was fraudulently kept in an interest yielding bank account by three respondents, including the Chief Registrar and the Deputy Registrar of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt.

Owasanoye made this known in his presentation to the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions during its hearing on the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to stop financial institutions from transacting in cryptocurrencies and matters arising therefrom.

The anti-graft agency, which revealed this on Tuesday, thus backed the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria to ban the use of Cryptocurrency by Financial Institutions

The overall objective of a system review is reform of the systems and procedures of public agencies with a view to identifying and eliminating, preventing, blocking and obstructing opportunities for corruption.

Asuquo, an Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission Investigator, made this known in a Federal High Court, while being cross-examined by Ade Adedeji (SAN), counsel to the 1st, 5th and 6th defendants in the money laundering trial.

It was learnt that the Katsina State indigene, who led the NCS from 2009 to 2015, died after a protracted illness.

The ICPC boss urged Directors of Finance and Accounts in MDAs and Budget Officers to embrace transparency and fiscal discipline.

Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, in a judgment, held that the former Governor had not shown good cause why the order sought by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission should not be granted

The Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, gave the commitment at the inauguration of NCC’s Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on December 10, 2020 in Abuja.

This is as stakeholders in the anti-corruption drive in the country have decried not only the rise in fraud and corruption risk during the coronavirus pandemic, but also the billions of dollars lost annually through illicit financial flows from Nigeria in particular and Africa in general.

The Forum said this in a statement endorsed by its Chairman, who is also the Chairman of Ibadan South-East Local Government, Alawode Emmanuel Oluwole, on Monday.

The chairman of the commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, stated this in Abuja on Wednesday at the presentation of awards to four winners in music and essay categories from Niger, Plateau and the FCT.