The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), yesterday, quizzed formeer Inspector-General of Police and Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Chief Mike Okiro, over an alleged N275 million fraud at the commission.
Okiro arrived the anti-graft agency at 9:51am with three other officers of the PSC and went straight into the investigation department.
Clad in an ash coloured Niger Delta attire with cap, Okiro was brought in a convoy of black Toyota Land Cruiser SUV with number plate T98 01 FG (PSC) and black Toyota Camry, with number plate T98 12 FG (PSC) to the ICPC headquarters in Abuja alongside Chief Accountant, Bisala A. A, one Mr. Ibe E.C. and his orderly, George Todonu.
A staff of the PSC, Aaron Kaase, had petitioned the ICPC, claiming that Okiro siphoned the said money out of the N350 million obtained by the commission from the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) to train PSC staff in the monitoring of the conduct of men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force during the concluded general elections that saw President Muhammadu Buhari coming back to power for a second time.
Kaase had claimed in his petition that Okiro had made bogus claims to train highly inflated number of his commission’s staff in Lagos, Abuja and Kano, trainings which he said were roughly carried out to a few staff in Mararaba near Abuja.
Kaase revealed that Okiro siphoned the said amount claiming he would train 500 staff in Abuja, 200 in Lagos and another 200 in Kano when the combined staff strength of the commission nationwide is not more than 400.
He disclosed that in Kano where 200 staff are said to be trained, the staff strength is merely 10, accusing Okiro and his orderly, Todonu, of claiming some millions of naira for separate overseas trainings which they never attended.
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