By Ade Adesomoju, Premium Times The anti-corruption agency has dropped the charges of school result falsification and forgery it levelled against the ex-presidential aide in 2019. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has amended the corruption and certificate forgery charges it filed against an ex-presidential aide, Okoi Obono-Obla. The amendment, coming
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Okoi Obono-Obla, a former aide to President Muhammad’s Buhari on prosecution has said his continuous travails at thee Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) was an effort to “hang” him for serving the country “honorably.” Obono-Obla who also served as the Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public
By Nsa Gill – The Nation Newspaper A team from the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has visited Cross River State to track constituency projects awarded between the years; 2016 and 2018 to Senators and House of Representative members. The projects valued at over 1.9 billion naira took the ICPC team to all the Local
By Jonathan Ugbal Baba Isa, a rights lawyer has raised alarm over an alleged witch hunt by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). The ICPC had on Friday, June 19, 2020, issued a statement about the arrest of a Primary School Teacher, Mrs. Roseline Egbuha, three staff of the Guaranty Trust Bank and a lawyer,
By Ushang Ewa The legal counsel to Okoi Obono-Obla, the former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on prosecution, First Baba Isa has raised an alarm over the play of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) which he said is harmful to Mr. Obono-Obla. Isa, in a statement issued on Friday
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Five months after he was declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the suspended Chairman of the Special Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, has been arrested by the anti-graft agency today (Friday) in Abuja. Mr. Obono-Obla, who was declared wanted
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Okoi Obono-Obla, former chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), has been accused of carrying out illegal investigations while he held the office. This accusation was made in a report by Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), submitted to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. Upon his
By CrossRiverWatch Admin Okoi Obono-Obla, former chairman of the Special Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), has alleged that some unnamed people are after him. In a post on his Facebook page expressing his feelings, Obono-Obla said those who stole billions and contributed to wrecking the economy did not receive such treatment.