The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has picked up the Director of Administration at the Police Service
Commission, Emmanuel Ibe, for an alleged N600m fraud.
Ibe was detained last week
following a petition by some members of the Police Service Commission
Cooperative Society that he allegedly collected millions of naira from them
meant to be used to purchase land.
Some members of the cooperative
society were said to have also introduced their families and friends to the
scheme.
After several months of waiting,
however, the petitioners said they did not receive the land they had paid for
and that all efforts to get a refund from Ibe, who is the chairman of the
cooperative, proved abortive.
Spokesman for the EFCC, Mr.
Wilson Uwujaren, who confirmed that the suspect was in EFCC custody, said Ibe
was arraigned by the ICPC on nine counts before Justice C. N. Oji of the
Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, Abuja.
“It is true. He (Ibe) was
arrested and he is in our custody,” Uwujaren said.
Counsel for the ICPC, Golden
Iwuagwu, while pressing the charge against the director, alleged that the
director fraudulently paid N11,750,000 to some selected staff of the PSC in
March 2015 as air fare and airport taxi allowances to travel from Abuja to
seven states within Nigeria on official duties even while there were no
connecting flights from Abuja to any of those states.
Ibe had pleaded guilty but was
not suspended from duty contrary to civil service rules.
Reacting, however, Head, Public
Relations Unit of the PSC, Mr. Ikechukwu Ani, said the matter had nothing to do
with the commission.
Ani added, “The cooperative (society) is a distinct body from the commission. The commission is a government body while the cooperative is a voluntary association; it has nothing to do with the PSC.Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
“Okiro has nothing to do with the matter. He has never tried to subdue any investigation. He is the chairman of the board and decisions are taken at plenary, not by one man.”
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