The panel set up by Kemi Adeosun,
minister of finance, to probe the allegations of corruption levelled against
Mounir Gwarzo, suspended director-general of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), has recommended his dismissal from public service.
The panel headed by Mahmoud
Isa-Dutse, permanent secretary of the finance ministry, has also asked Gwarzo
to refund the N104,851,154 severance package he approved for himself.
Gwarzo was an executive
commissioner at SEC when former President Goodluck Jonathan appointed him to
lead the commission on May 22, 2015.
On assuming office as DG, he
approved the hefty package as entitlement for being an executive commissioner
for two and a half years.
Despite the opposition mounted by
the acting head of SEC legal department, Frana Chuwuogo, Gwarzo allegedly
received over N104 million as benefits of his former position.
TheCable understands that the
report of the inquiry has been submitted to Adeosun.
Gwarzo’s travails began after a
group wrote a petition to the House of Representatives, accusing him of abusing
his office.
In the petition, Gwarzo was
accused of awarding contracts to his family members and friends, in violation
of the rules guiding the commission.
It said Gwarzo, his family
members and certain directors of the commission were shareholders and directors
in companies “used to carry out illegal transactions”.
Details of the “illegality” were
stated, with at least four different accounts said to be traced to him.
When Adeosun suspended Gwarzo, he
accused her of punishing him because he failed to stop the audit of Oando as
requested by the minister.
At the hearing of the legislative
panel on Tuesday, Gwarzo insisted that the Oando audit made the minister move
against him, an allegation she denied.
Defending his suspension, Adeosun
said: “it’s not every time that government officials should be removed from
office after they had been arrested”.
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