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Published

6 years ago

January 29, 2019

Global News

Tongues are wagging and tension is escalating among staff of the

Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC)

as a top staff of the ICPC is said to be having an amorous affairs with a

woman who heads a sensitive position in the commission culminating into

secret marriage and this has to a large extent affected their official duties

thereby damaging the reputation of the anti-graft agency.

The illicit romance first blew open as an office romance between a top

investigator and a public relations officer but has since been secretly

formalized without following due process of change of name.

The office romance which was hitherto a top secret took on an interesting

dimension when they began interacting to pursue ulterior objectives against

individuals and organisations invited by the ICPC using their departmental

positions discreetly.

This unofficial collusion of husband and wife hit the rocks in November last

year when the ICPC was inundated with public ridicule and outrage over its

press statement on an investigation that was riddled with unpardonable

errors and scandalous misrepresentation at variance with the documented

records of the investigation.

The barrage of criticism and condemnation of ICPC triggered by the press

statement prompted internal queries which confirmed that it was entirely

plotted by the husband-and-wife cabal to blackmail some organizations and

extort “settlement” terms.

The internal investigation also showed that the misleading press statement

was extracted from the petition that triggered the investigation without

reference to the records of the investigation and statements made by the

organizations invited.

The ICPC has been in a dilemma since the husband and wife cabal’s

involvement was exposed because though it should set the records straight

that would gravely bring its independence in investigating corrupt practices

to a questionable perception by the general public.

This unforgivable act started with the acting chairman in charge and has

continued unchecked.

The said official at the center of this amorous affair boasts of his closeness

to one of the highest offices in the Presidency (Not the office of the

President), he confided in close friends that whatever he wants will happen

in the ICPC and so far he has succeeded unimpeded.

The question pertinently begging for an answer is if the acting chairman in

ICPC is aware of this secret union and what he has done to ensure that an

anticorruption agency of the federal government is not run from a family

meeting room and decisions taken by the ICPC are not influenced by

personal interest

The absence of the board of the Commission which was approved by the

Senate but is yet to be inaugurated is blamed by staff for the rampant acts

of indiscipline and privatization of official functions by the husband-and-wife

cabal.