ICPC drops school result forgery charges against ex-presidential aide, Obono-Obla
The anti-corruption agency has dropped the charges of school result falsification and forgery it levelled against the ex-presidential aide in 2019.
The
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has amended the corruption and certificate forgery charges it filed against an ex-presidential aide, Okoi Obono-Obla.
The amendment, coming less than two months after Mr Obono-Obla and his co-defendants were arraigned by the commission, reduced the number of counts from 10 to five.
The amended charges filed at the High Court of the FCT, in Apo, Abuja, on March 4 and seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday, also revealed that the anti-corruption agency has backtracked on its allegations of certificate forgery sensationally levelled against Mr Obono-Obla in 2019.
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• ICPC arrests 33 FRSC officials, for alleged extortion
The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier-General Ibrahim Shuaib, has said over 30 senior staff members of the NYSC have been dismissed for several offences, including misconduct and indiscipline.
Their dismissal was said to have been recommended in the report of a disciplinary committee and ratified by the national governing board of the NYSC on March 8, 2021.
Shuaib, who stated these in an interview with
Saturday PUNCH on efforts being put in place to sustain discipline in the organisation, said every employee must abide by the ethics of the NYSC.
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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arrested 33 Federal Road Safety Corps officials and a civilian for allegedly extorting money from motorists on highways across the country.
In a joint operation code-named, Operation Tranquility V comprising officers of ICPC, Department of State Services and the FRSC, raids were carried out simultaneously in five locations nationwide.
According to a statement on Friday by the ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, titled, ‘Again, ICPC leads arrest of 33 FRSC Officials, one other for alleged extortion on highways,’ five FRSC officials and a civilian were nabbed at Onitsha Head Bridge, 11 officials on Awka – Onitsha Road, both in Anambra State; eight officials on Calabar – Bakassi Road, Cross River State; four FRSC officials at Hawan Kibo, Jos Road, Plateau State; and five officials on Oboloafor – Enugu Road, Enugu State.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has arraigned the national coordinator of the Federal Civil Service Staff with Disabilities Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Mr. Illiasu Olanrewaju Abdulrauf, for alleged fraud to the tune of N359,710,000.
Abdulrauf was brought before Justice O.A. Musa, of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, Bwari, on a 17-count charge bordering on advance fee fraud and other related offences which contravene Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2010 punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.
The charge in part reads, “That you Illiasu Olanrewaju Abdulrauf (M) between May, 2014 or thereabouts at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, whilst being National Coordinator, Federal Civil Service Staff with Disabilities Multipurpose Cooperative Society, Abuja, with the intent to defraud, did obtain by false pretence, from Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation by