The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has challenged the suspended chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, to appear and clear his name.
It gave the charge while addressing newsmen in Abuja.
Its spokesperson, Mrs. Rasheedat Okoduwa, said the former presidential aide resorted to propaganda against the Commission instead of turning himself in.
The anti-graft agency had declared him wanted in October following his alleged repeated failure to honour the Commission’s invitations, but he is said to have also denied being invited by the ICPC for questioning before he was declared wanted.
Okoduwa said the Commission was aware that the former presidential aide was back in the country, and was even sighted at an event recently.
“We are aware that Obono-Obla has returned to the county, and everything he has been saying about the commission and its chairman. He 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.
“The 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. Come forward and 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,” she said.
She said further that the Commission had alerted security agencies to pick him up when seen to enable him to clear the air, adding, “Signals have been sent to all the law enforcement agencies. Whenever they see him I am sure they will pick him up.”
