Buhari’s NPC Nominee, Alanamu, Remanded In Ilorin Prison, For Alleged N182m Fraud
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee as commissioner of the National Population Commission, NPC, Dr. Saadu Alanamu has been remanded in prison over an alleged fraud involving N182, 369, 625.00.
Alanamu was among the 23 nominees, President Muhammadu Buhari forwarded to the senate for confirmation.
In August 2017, Alanamu, a former chairman of the governing council of Kwara State Polytechnic, was named as one of the nominees to the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, who was acting president at the time. But he was later dropped after reports revealed that he was being investigated for corruption.
Views: Visits 7 By Dirisu Yakubu, Abuja Following this week’s allegation of financial fraud to the tune of N10 billion made against Prince Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP by Kassim Afegbua, the former, Thursday, demanded a retraction of the story and payment of N1 billion in damages from Afegbua. Secondus through his counsel, Emeka Etiaba, threatened to take legal action against Mr. Afegbua within 48 hours if he fails to meet his demands. Afegbua had accused Secondus of mismanaging the sum of N10 billion which he claimed accrued to the party from the sales of nomination forms for the 2019 election; a claim punctured by party spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, who noted that the party realized the sum of N4.6 billion and not N10B billion.
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN has described the National Ethics and Integrity Policy as a child of necessity conceived out of the urgent need to resuscitate and rejuvenate Nigeria lost values of honesty and integrity. Prof.
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Published 30 April 2021
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN, has said all the money recovered by the commission are paid into the coffers of the Federal Government.
Owasanoye, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance, investigating the activities of revenue-generating agencies of the government in Abuja, told the committee that the ICPC had no retention powers over funds or assets recovered from corrupt people.
He said the commission had a designated account for the recovery of proceeds of crime called, ‘ICPC Recovery Account,’ into which all recovered funds were deposited for payment into the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government.