Fear of Buhari! Former Public Office Holder Sells Properties to Refund His Loot

 

According to the Punch an unnamed Federal Pay Officer in Ogun state has started selling off the properties he acquired with his loot from government coffers while in power.

 

The revelation was made through a recent statement by Mr Ekpo Nta, the chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The public office holder embezzled a whooping sum of N103m meant for three federal government colleges. This is in a bid to reaffirm President Muhammadu Buhari's stand against corruption.
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The ICPC Chairman also said that the concerned officer will remain in ICPC custody till the recovery of the balance of the loot even though the sum of N53 million has already been recovered.

Resident consultant of the ICPC, Mr Folu Olamiti on Saturday disclosed that Nta made the revelation at the 2nd annual colloquium organised by the law office of Chief Adegboyega Awomolo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, in Abuja on Wednesday. The ICPC boss used the juncture to intimate the general public about the massive success being currently recorded by the anti-graft body against the criticisms that the fight against corruption is only on paper.

Nta said, “We just returned close to N1bn to the Federal Ministry of Environment and N53m to three colleges in Ogun State.

“An official in the ministry took the money and lodged it into a dedicated account. We tracked it and recovered the money. The N53m we just returned to the schools was recovered from a Federal Pay Officer in Ogun State.

Nta further revealed that the N103 million diverted by the federal pay officer in Ogun state was meant for feeding the students of three federal schools in the state. The ICPC boss has now reportedly handed over the sum of N56.2m to the affected schools, the Federal Government College, Odogbolu; Federal Government Girls College, Sagamu; and Federal Science Technical College, Ijebu Mushin.