The Independent Corrupt Practices
and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it might revisit the case
files of 20 former state governors it indicted for corruption in 2008.
Addressing reporters in Abuja on
Tuesday, Abdullahi Bako, acting chairman of the commission, said the case files
were shelved due to a combination of legal and financial impediments.
“The cases came up when the
governors were still in office, and the law provides for the setting up of an
independent council to investigate them,” he said.
“Unfortunately, at that time, the
office of the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN) which was to appoint the council had
no money to pay for such gigantic operation or assignment
“That was why nothing was done
about it. But the files may be revisited now that they have left office,
especially of those with prima facie cases against them.”
In mid 2008, the commission announced
the setting up of a committee to investigate several petitions of alleged
corrupt acts against the governors.
At the end of the exercise, 20 of
the ex-governors, whose identities were not released by the commission, were
allegedly found to have violated the ICPC Act.
Bako also told reporters that the
commission was awaiting the directive of the federal government on what to do
with assets recovered from looters.
“We are not auctioning the
assets. There is a body set up by the government to audit recovered assets all
over the country and abroad,” he said.
“It is left for the government to
decide thereafter; it is not for the individual anti-corruption agencies to
dispose off anything.”
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Have you been sleeping.What you are saying is political. My opinion is that you want to run after opposition party members. Since they are putting their house in shape to take over from the present party. Crooks in Nigerian will never seize.
ReplyDeleteI think offenders are offenders always, since they were not tried at that time , now they can be prosecuted. Best to my knowledge some of them their BP will rise my advise to them is that anyone that has an ambition of being a president should withdraw it
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