Constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Mike
Ozekhome SAN, on Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari will soon
render Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and members of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) loyal to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu impotent
in the coming days.
Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Ozekhome who said the
battle for the heart and soul of the 2023 presidential election has
already begun said President Buhari will also make them feel
accommodated in APC and ultimately discard them.
” One thing I want to assure Nigerians is that going by the
trajectory of President Buhari’s persona, the VicePresident Yemi
Osinbajo and the Tinubu group will be rendered more and more
impotent, unaccommodated and discarded.
“The battle for the heart and soul of 2023 has already earnestly
begun. Read my lips,” he said.
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Anti-Corruption Academy Graduates 49 ICPC
Investigators
The Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), Keffi, Nasarawa
State, the training arm of the Independent Corrupt Practices and
Other Related Offences Commission, (ICPC) has graduated a pool of
forty-nine staff from its Basic Investigation and System Study
Course Number 4.
The graduands who are staff of the Commission were drawn from
its various departments and units to undergo the 4-week course
which contents were designed to equip participants with basic
investigation skills and the capacity to conduct system study which
is one of ICPC’s flagship corruption-prevention tools for
ministries, departments and agencies of government.
The graduation ceremony organised for the participants had in
attendance the Chairman of ICPC, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, represented
by one of the Commission’s Board Members, Hon. Oluwabukola Balogun.
Present also were two other Members of the Board, Hon. Titus Okolo
and Hon. Obiora Igwedibia; the Provost of ACAN, Prof Sola
Akinrinade; as well as Heads of Departments and Units of ICPC.
Delivering her speech, the representative of the ICPC Chairman
congratulated the participants on their successful completion of
the course, and urged them to ensure that the knowledge gained
would be applied effectively to their assignments whenever they
were called upon to do so. She also urged them to be grateful to
God as it would not have been possible for them to succeed without
His grace. “God has brought you this far; you must thank Him for
this important achievement of yours”, she said.
Also throwing in a few words of advice for the graduands, Hon.
Okolo said as investigators, the graduands should bear in mind
three important guiding principles: “…look with your eyes, listen
with your ears but keep your mouth shut, because if you say more
than you are required to say that’s when problems will arise”.
On his own part, Hon. Igwedibia commended the graduands for
their steadfastness and hard work that had made them to complete
the course successfully. He added that their future in the
Commission would remain bright if they continued to bring these
same attributes to bear on their work.
The Provost of ACAN, in his remarks, said he was pleased that
the graduands had shown great commitment and seriousness all
through the course, and reiterated the Academy’s resolve to improve
the capacity of ICPC staff for the Commission to achieve its
mandate.
Earlier, while speaking on contents of the Basic Investigation
and System Study Course, the Course Co-ordinator, Mr. Richard
Bello, had explained that the course also had components on ethics
and integrity-building as well as a physical fitness regime. He
said the participants, who started out as fifty in number but had
one of them excused from the course on health grounds, were taken
through individual and group theoretical and practical exercises in
addition to fieldwork on investigations and information
analysis.
One of the graduands, Mr. Yilzem Hyacienth Hoomkwap, a lawyer of
the Commission’s Chairman’s Special Unit, gave the vote of thanks
on behalf of his colleagues. He expressed their appreciation for
the opportunity offered them to acquire fresh knowledge and hone
their skills, while promising to always perform their assigned
tasks with diligence and dedication.
The highpoint of the event was the presentation of certificates
to the graduands by Hon. Balogun and the two Board Members present.
It was a spectacular sight to behold as the graduands smartly
marched up to collect their certificates.
Signed:
Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, mni
Spokesperson for the Commission