The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC) has declared Okoi Obono-Obla, former chairman of
the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property
(SPIP) wanted.
The anti-graft agency said the action was due Obono-Obla’s
“repeated failure to appear before it to answer questions bordering
on allegations of fraud and corruption”.
Obono-Obla was suspended in August by President Muhammadu
Buhari, who declared the suspension would be in force till the
conclusion of the investigation of the ICPC.
In a statement on Tuesday, ICPC said Obono-Obla had refused to
honour its invitation over a series of allegations levelled against
him.
“The Commission is in receipt of petitions accusing him of abuse
of office, falsification of admission records, living above his
income and collection of gratification from suspects under his
investigation,” it said in a statement.
“The suspended chairman is also facing allegations of working
outside the guidelines governing the panel by investigating
unauthorized petitions and prosecuting suspects without recourse to
the office of the Attorney General of the Federation.
“ICPC had conducted series of investigations on the allegations
with preliminary findings showing that some provisions of the
Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and extant
laws of Nigeria had been allegedly violated by Mr. Obono-Obla.”
The agency said it had established that Obono-Obla left the
country in August and had not returned since then.
“Consequently, ICPC had extended several invitations to him,
which he had failed to honour without giving any reason,” it
said.
“Attempts to track and make him appear before the Commission
also failed leading ICPC to contact other law enforcement agencies
for assistance concerning his whereabouts.
“One of such contact has yielded results as records from the
Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) show that Obono-Obla had
travelled out of the country.
“The NIS records revealed that he left the country to an
undisclosed location on 17th August, 2019, through the Murtala
Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja and has not returned two
months after.”
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