ICPC boss visits late Justice Ayoola home, eulogized him - ITREALMS

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The chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu, has described late Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola as a man of honour and integrity.

Dr Aliyu, made this remark when he led a powerful ICPC delegation on a condolence visit to Ibadan, the residence of the late jurist who was the former Chairman  ICPC on Tuesday 27 August 2024. 

Do we still need EFCC, ICPC for anti-graft war? By Zainab Suleiman Okino - ITREALMS

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Since their creation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), have always been mired in controversy and blemished by political influence. 

From the appointment of the heads to their activities, the anti-graft agencies are also troubled, as much as they trouble alleged offenders, in addition to subtle institutional rivalry between them and the Attorney General’s office.

ICPC arraigns man over alleged employment scam - ITREALMS

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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned one Umar Abubakar, for offences bordering on alleged forgery and employment scam, reports ITREALMS.

Abubakar was docked before Honourable Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman of Adamawa State High Court 1, sitting in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.

ANLC bans importers from opening Form ‘M’ with FirstBank, threatens to petition EFCC, ICPC - ITREALMS

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The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has banned members who are majorly importers and their agents from opening Form 'M' with the FirstBank Plc, reports ITREALMS.

Form M, which is now electronic as 'e-Form' is a mandatory documentation process put in place by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to monitor goods that are imported into the country as well as enable collection of import duties where applicable.

Fake employment letters: HEDA petitions ICPC - ITREALMS

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The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a leading anti-corruption organization, has written a petition to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), expressing its concern about the Federal Civil Service Commission employing staff with fake employment letters.

The organization accused the commission of failing to make reports of its investigation available in the public domain regarding the issue.

New Naira notes racketeering lands Oando Accountant in ICPC net - ITREALMS

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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arrested an accountant of Oando Filling Station, Dutse Alhaji, Abuja, over alleged racketeering of the new Naira notes, reports ITREALMS.

Confirming this to ITREALMS, the spokesperson to ICPC, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua said that this latest arrest followed the continued onslaught by the Commission on some elements who have taken advantage of the scarcity of the new Naira notes to swindle unsuspecting Nigerians.

Primary school teacher, accomplice to forteit N110.4m says ICPC - ITREALMS

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A Federal High Court in Abuja, has ordered the interim forfeiture of N110.4 million traced to the bank accounts of one Mr. James Erebuoye and seven other suspects by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly being proceeds of crime.

Spokesperson at ICPC, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua disclosed to ITREALMS that in an ex-parte motion filed by Raheem Adesina on behalf of ICPC before Justice D. Okorowa, the Commission further prayed for an order of interim forfeiture of a Toyota Lexus Jeep and a Toyota Venza car, including an iPad device.

Ositelu promises to scrap EFCC, ICPC, reform Police - ITREALMS

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The operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) would be collapsed into a reformed Police Force to be established under the Presidential candidate of the Accord Party, Isaac Babatunde Ositelu, reports ITREALMS.

The Accord Party flag bearer, also promises radical restructuring of the internal security apparatus of the country would give birth to an efficient and effective police service that would be technology driven and people oriented. He said that the reformed Police service would be made accountable, decent, responsive and responsible to the Nigerian nation and not to the few elites who seemed to undermine the discipline required in the police as an institution of the state. 

 
In a statement released to the media on Saturday, 24 November 2018, Ositelu said that when he is voted into office as the next President and Commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the federal Republic of Nigeria, his government would embark on effective and efficient management of the nation’s resources. He said that the cost of governance would be significantly reduced under his watch. While saying that the executive arm of government would lead by example, he said that the cost cutting initiative will include the streamlining of the security agencies involved in the management of corruption and fraud.

He said emphatically that his government would scrap the EFCC and ICPC and strengthen the Nigeria Police Force to perform its constitutional responsibilities of curbing crimes and criminalities. Justifying the need for the harmonisation of the work of the EFCC and ICPC with that of the Police, he said that the creation of these agencies had led to needless envy, corruption and even insubordination among the rank and file deployed from the Police to EFCC and ICPC which are considered ‘juicy’ agency to work for because of the special incentives available to the operatives.

Rather than create room for animosity among the security operatives, Ositelu said that a well incentivised Police will live up to its responsibility of curbing criminalities across the country. He pondered if the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Police cannot effectively and efficiently carry out its legal mandates if properly mobilised. According to him, the Police would be given all the needed supports in its human capital development to enable it come out sharper and materially ready to tackle the menace of crimes and criminality in the public and private institutions across the country.

The party standard bearer said that the reformed Police will be restructured into a police service that would be intelligent driven. He stressed that the move would consequently make the police service a collective responsibility of the citizens and other state apparatus for a better society. He posits as well that by creating a police service with infallible national crime database, the call for community policing would be seamlessly persuasive and integrated into the nation’s internal security architecture. According to him, this is the panacea for achieving drastic reduction in criminal activities. 

Speaking also on the planned far-reaching revitalisation of the education sector, he said that the retooling of the nation’s education sector would make the unionisation of the institutions less attractive to the academic staff of the nation’s citadel of learning. According to him, market driven forces would incentivise the academic staff to focus more attention on research based commitments to the institutions.

Taken aback at a recent revelation that the tertiary institutions in Nigeria had been on a cumulative four years strike since 1999 to 2018, he said, no nation can afford such luxury of wastefulness in its human capital development schedule. Noting the needless disruptions to the education sector, going by the incessant strikes arising from disputes between the federal and state government, he said that Nigeria would derive more benefits from strategic restructuring of its education sector. Drawing a parallel from the incentives available to the tertiary institutions in America and other developed nations, he said that the higher institutions of learning in Nigeria would be made true centres of learning that would serve as the pillar of support for commerce and industry.

On the source of funding for the institutions, since he planned to make them less dependent on statutory allocations, the Presidential candidate of Accord Party said that the schools would be refocused to produce quality research works that the private sector would be interested in buying. Aside from attracting private sector funding for research experiences, he said that the schools can also market some of their unique products that compete with international best offers.

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AFRICMIL asks EFCC, ICPC to probe videos of Gov Ganduje - ITREALMS

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The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) has called on anticorruption agencies, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to probe video clips showing Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, allegedly receiving bribes from contractors, reports ITREALMS.

AFRICMIL is a nongovernmental organisation working to promote accountability and good governance through whistle blowing and promotion of active citizens’ participation.

In a statement by AFRICMIL’s Coordinator, Chido Onumah, the organisation described the allegations against the governor as well as the video evidence as “too glaring to ignore.”

The allegations came into the open following publication of video clips by online news platform, Daily Nigerian, which showed Gov Ganduje collecting and stashing in his clothe bundles of US dollar from someone purported to be a contractor.

“The allegations are weighty. The videos we have seen further lend credence to the accusation and have made the affair too serious to ignore,” Onumah said.

He said the anticorruption agencies “should rise to the occasion by going to the root of this issue and possibly document evidence for eventual prosecution of all those found culpable.”

“We are aware that the hands of the anti-corruption agencies are somehow tied by constitutional immunity enjoyed by Mr. Ganduje. This, however, does not stop them from conducting preliminary investigation into the matter,” he noted.

According to Onumah, nothing in Section 308 of the constitution that gives immunity to the president and governors stops the anti-corruption agencies from interrogating Mr. Ganduje in the process of the investigation.

“Cases like this serve as litmus tests for the operational independence of our anticorruption agencies and political will of the government,” Onumah noted. “ICPC and EFCC must thoroughly investigate these videos which have become national embarrassment and prepare ahead for eventual prosecution of Gov. Ganduje if he is found culpable.”

The organisation commended Daily Nigerian for the exposure as well as the contractor who recorded the clips “for patriotic act of whistleblowing.”

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Shittu’s Resignation: CGN orders probe of Minister by EFCC, ICPC - ITREALMS

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The Computer Guild of Nigeria has called on the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to go after the recently resigned Communications Minister, Barr. Adebayo Shittu, reports ITREALMS.

A press release issued and signed by the National President of the Guild, Mr. Wole Adedoyin after an emergency meeting in Lagos, and made available to ITREALMS, demanded the probe of former Minister of Communications.

Adedoyin, who is also the National Coordinator of the Information Technology Writers Association of Nigeria (ITWAN), urged ICPC and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to commence investigations and probe of Minister Shittu’s past financial activities in the Ministry.

“We are fully aware that Minister Shittu awarded so many contracts when he was in the Ministry. He cannot just leave the Ministry like that without being probed before his resignation from the ministry, we have heard lots of allegations and misdeeds committed by the Honourable Minister apart from some hidden secret recently unearthed by one of his former Personal Assistants. We, therefore, demand independent probe and investigation of Minister Shittu by both the ICPC and EFCC and should be prosecuted if involved in any financial scandal in the ministry” the group said.

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