The Independent Corrupt Practices
and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) may arraign the President, Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF), Mr Amaju Pinnick and some officials for alleged
fraud.
Pinnick and Shehu Dikko, 2nd Vice
President NFF, are presently being investigated by the commission over alleged
FIFA grant misappropriation.
ICPC spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat
Okoduwa, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Abuja on Sunday.
The commission had on its twitter
handle, posted: “ICPC places under investigation, mansion belonging to Amaju
Pinnick, President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) located in Park View
Estate, Lagos.
“The Commission has also placed a
mansion in Maitama, belonging to Dikko under investigation.”
Okoduwa explained that the
commission so far has reasonable suspicion that the emoluments that have been
earned by the NFF officials could not have bought those houses.
“Investigating around assets
probably acquired through proceeds of crime is one of the first steps in
corruption investigation,” she said.
While noting that the commission
was proceeding with the investigation, Okoduwa said that when completed, the
press would be briefed on the details.
“Our official have proceeded with
the investigation, when they are ready, they will let me know and I will tell
you people.
“We want to keep things under
wraps for now so that we don’t expose too much information that will jeopardise
the investigation.
“There is something about
investigation, when you let out information, if for example we say this is what
we are investigating against some people, those people can go and tamper with
documents relating to the matter.
“In that case, the investigation
will not be concluded, or take much longer to be concluded,” Okoduwa said.
On possible arraignment of the
NFF officials, Okoduwa said that “they can only be arraigned after the
investigation.
“Arraignment is when we are ready
to go to court and we have all the facts, and if the investigation points to
the direction of arraignment and they are indicted, they are real suspects,
then we take them for arraignment.
“If after the investigation, they
were able to prove to us that they got the houses legitimately and they are
cleared of other allegations, then we don’t arraign,” Okoduwa said.
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