The organization also urged President Buhari to “urgently publish the outcome of the investigation conducted on the matter by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami, SAN, and to ask Mr Malami to hand over the file to both the EFCC and ICPC”
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The governor was said to have commissioned his mistress to help him launder the said sum only for the latter to refuse to remit it in the slush accounts the governor provided
n ICPC official, Alhaji Bako Abdullahi, officially handed over the vehicles to Hajia Rabi Jimeta, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, on Wednesday in Abuja
Cristina Albertin, the UNODC Country Representative in Nigeria, gave the advice on Monday in Calabar, Cross River State during a workshop organised by UNODC on “Corruption Prevention in Nigeria”
Any observer following the activities of the ICPC can easily recall that the recovery of looted public assets, including money and property worth billions of naira, has been a consistent achievement of the Commission in its interventions over the years
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
He said: “Most of the governors thought I was going to find out how the bailout funds were utilized, not knowing that the commission had different intention
Saleh had been pencilled down as the next substantive Secretary of the National Judicial Council
The spokesman of the Commission, Edet Ufot, in a statement in Abuja said some national dailies on Wednesday published that Nta had been mandated to proceed on compulsory retirement leave
Insiders said the order for Nta to proceed on compulsory leave can only mean his sack by President Muhammadu Buhari
According to the newspaper, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has written to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission directing the reopening of the cases
While it may not be desirable to dignify such a faceless group with a response, especially, giving the fact that it is one of the propaganda tools of the Ayo Fayose government, masquerading as an interest group, we, however consider it necessary to set the record straight for the sake of the unsuspecting members of the public who are daily fed with a deluge of falsehood by the propaganda machinery of Ekiti State government
Nta disclosed this when he received students of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, who were on a study tour to the commission, in Abuja
Nta attributed the development to the anti-corruption disposition of the government of President Muhammadu Buhari
Onyeneje and Dr. Leonard Ugwu were arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission on a seven-count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by trick
The accused persons, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges
The ICPC, in a statement on Wednesday, warned members of the public not to fall prey to fraudsters claiming to invite applications for various positions
The anti-graft Commission said it will consistently monitor the funds and how they are dispensed in all the states that benefitted
A notice of seizure issued by the Commission dated August 11, 2015 and signed by its Chairman, Ekpo Nta, said the movable and immovable properties seized from the affected staff were part of the subject of the investigation and were found to be “excessive having regards to their present emoluments and all other relevant circumstances”
This followed the invitation by officials of the anti-graft agency over a petition sent to it by Aaron Kaase, the Principal Admin Officer (Press and Public Relations Unit) of the PSC