{"id":115686,"date":"2020-02-07T21:33:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/?p=115686"},"modified":"2020-02-07T21:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:33:16","slug":"clear-your-name-icpc-tells-obono-obla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmail-ng.com\/clear-your-name-icpc-tells-obono-obla\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear your name, ICPC tells Obono-Obla"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has urged the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla, to appear and clear his name.<\/p>\n
Addressing newsmen in Abuja, ICPC Spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, said the former presidential aide resorted to propaganda against the commission instead of turning himself in.<\/p>\n
Obono-Obla is on the ICPC wanted list for alleged corruption and abuse of office.<\/p>\n
The anti-graft agency declared him wanted in October following his alleged repeated failure to honor the commission\u2019s invitations.<\/p>\n
However, he has reportedly denied the allegations and dismissed the action of the ICPC as an attempt to ridicule and embarrass him.<\/p>\n
He is said to have also denied being invited by the ICPC for questioning before he was declared wanted.<\/p>\n
Okoduwa said the commission was aware that the former presidential aide was back in the country, and was even sighted at an event recently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are aware that Obono-Obla has returned to the county, and everything he has been saying about the commission and its chairman.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is reportedly going about saying ICPC is a rival office to his own. I have people calling me to react on what he has said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decent thing is for the gentleman to come to ICPC to clear his name. We have given him an opportunity to clear his name of the allegations against him.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome forward, let us hear your own side of the story. We have done our investigations and have facts. We want to confront him with these facts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She added that the commission had alerted security agencies to pick him up when seen to enable him to clear the air.<\/p>\n
\u201cSignals have been sent to all the law enforcement agencies. Whenever they see him I am sure they will pick him up,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has urged the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla, to appear and clear his name. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, ICPC Spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, said the former presidential aide resorted to propaganda against the commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":90932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,15,2],"tags":[531,37009],"yoast_head":"\n