ICPC Recovers over
ICPC Recovers over 200 Properties in 2019–
Owasanoye
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission (ICPC) has said that it had recovered over 200
properties including plazas, bungalows and mansions, from suspected
corrupt individuals in the last eight months.
Chairman of the Commission, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, who
stated this at a meeting with the management of the Nigerian
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS), added that ICPC was on
course to recover additional 100, to take the number of recovered
properties to 300 before the end of the year.
He further stated that the Commission was working with the
Federal Ministry of Works, to map out the properties with a view to
ascertaining their value and how best they can be put to use by the
federal government upon final forfeiture.
He said, “ICPC has recovered over 200 assets under my watch. We
are working hard to get to 300 before the end of the year. Some of
these properties are under interim forfeiture, while others are
under final forfeiture.”
Earlier, the Director General of NIALS, Professor Muhammed
Ladan, pleaded with the Commission to help the agency to secure a
temporary office accommodation for its staff.
Professor Ladan while bemoaning the lack of office space for the
over 317 staff of NIALS said that the institute has been squatting
at the Supreme Court Complex in Abuja for more than 20 years, and
at the University of Lagos for about 40 years.
He said that the basement of the Supreme Court being occupied by
over 38 staff of NIALS was not comfortable. He then urged ICPC to
help procure one of the recovered properties as temporary office
for the institute.
The ICPC boss, in his response, gave the assurance that the
Commission would work within the confines of the law to render any
assistance it can to the institute in terms of temporary office
accommodation, while also advising NIALS to seek for ways to
develop its permanent office.
Signed: Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, mni
Spokesperson for the Commission