Mr
Ekpo Nta, the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC), has revealed that a former federal government
official who allegedly diverted N103m meant for three federal government
colleges has been selling off his properties to pay back the loot because
Buhari is hell bent on sanitizing and prosecuting executive thieves
.
The
ICPC Chairman also said that the concerned officer will remain in ICPC custody
till the recovery of the balance of the loot even though the sum of N53 million
has already been recovered.
Resident
consultant of the ICPC, Mr Folu Olamiti on Saturday disclosed that Nta made the
revelation at the 2nd annual colloquium organised by the law office of Chief
Adegboyega Awomolo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in Abuja on Wednesday.
At
the colloquium, the ICPC boss also said the commission had recorded successes
in the fight against corruption, starting with the recovery of assets seized
from officials of government who were being investigated for living above their
means.
Nta
said, “We just returned close to N1bn to the Federal Ministry of Environment
and N53m to three colleges in Ogun State.
“An
official in the ministry took the money and lodged it into a dedicated account.
We tracked it and recovered the money. The N53m we just returned to the schools
was recovered from a Federal Pay Officer in Ogun State.
Nta
further revealed that the N103 million diverted by the federal pay officer in
Ogun state was meant for feeding the students of three federal schools in the
state.
The
ICPC boss has now reportedly handed over the sum of N56.2m to the affected
schools – the Federal Government College, Odogbolu; Federal Government Girls
College, Sagamu; and Federal Science Technical College, Ijebu Mushin.
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