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PSC denies alleged N133m scam
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has said that contrary to media reports, its chairman, Mike Okiro was not indicted by a report of the investigation conducted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) into a fraud allegation, involving the commission.
The ICPC in its report had directed the former Inspector-General of Police to remit N133m to the Federal Government through the ICPC recovery account at First City Monument Bank.
The money was the balance of the N350m the PSC received for staff training and physical monitoring of police personnel during the last general elections.
Read also: Scam: ICPC wants Okiro to cough out N133m
But the commission in a statement on Wednesday by the Director, Administration and Finance, PSC, Emmanuel Ibe, contended that Okiro was not indicted by the ICPC.
The statement partly read, “Paragraph 3 of the ICPC report states “The investigation has not revealed any act of criminal infraction against the person of Sir. (Dr.) Mike Mbama Okiro, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission as all issues outlined above are administrative in nature and within the ambits of career public servants handling.
“Where then is the indictment? The Hon. Chairman has gone through the publication and finds it not only damaging and malicious but offensive and actionable. It is also fictitious as the caption has no link whatsoever with the ICPC report or even the body of the story.”
Meanwhile, the petitioner, Aaron Kaase has said that the ICPC investigation report “has exposed its gross incompetence and lack of seriousness to lead the war against corruption in its just released report purportedly “exonerating” Mr. Mike Okiro, Chairman of Police Service Commission of any criminal infraction in the alleged N275.5m PSC election fraud.”
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