Reps inspect 95 FG vehicles seized by ICPC
The House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption has inspected 95 Federal Government vehicles seized by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) from government officials after the discontinuation of the Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme (Sure-P) by the current administration.
Speaking, while conducting the members round the seized vehicles, the ICPC Chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta, said 40 of them were recovered from some retired officials of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources.
Chairman of the Committee, Rep Akinloye Azeez Babajide said that the essence of the oversight visit was to see what the commission was doing and offer support where necessary.
Babajide said: “The perception of ICPC not doing enough should be a thing of the past. With what I have seen, we want to contribute to the development of the Commission and eradicate wrong perceptions of ICPC.”
Earlier, the ICPC Chairman had said preventing corruption is a major objective of the mandate of the commission which was also the thrust of what it was doing.
“ICPC is interested in the development and deployment of high Information and communication technology (ICT) in government processes to achieve success with greater ease. This will be the height of our prevention activities,” a statement by the commission’s spokesperson Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, quoted Nta as saying.