ICPC grills Okiro over alleged N275m scam

Reports indicate that a former Inspector-General of Police and Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr. Mike Okiro, may have been questioned by the ICPC based on a petition by a member of staff of the commission, Aaron Kaase, claiming that Okiro allegedly siphoned N275m out of the N350m that was obtained by the commission from the Office of the National Security Adviser to train PSC staff.

PSC staff were scheduled to partake in the monitoring of the conduct of men and officers of the Nigeria Police in the last general elections.

In his petition, Kaase alleged that Okiro had made bogus claims to train highly inflated number of PSC staff in Lagos, Abuja and Kano, but that the trainings were roughly carried out to a few staff in Mararaba, a satellite community of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

He also alleged that Okiro and others claimed some millions of naira for separate overseas trainings, which they never attended.

The petitioner had said that Okiro and others allegedly siphoned the said amount, claiming they would train 500 staff in Abuja; 200 in Lagos and another 200 in Kano, when the combined staff strength of the commission nationwide was not more than 400.

Kaase also stated that in Kano where 200 members of staff were said to be trained, the staff strength was merely 10.

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