On Tuesday, the senate passed a bill to amend the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) act.
But little was known about the details of what the senators passed in the “committee of the whole” when they considered 70 clauses seeking to amend the principal act of ICPC.
What was widely reported was that the upper legislative chamber amended section 25 of the law establishing the anti-graft commission toWhile presenting his report, Abdu Kwari, chairman of the senate anti-corruption committee, had said there was a need to make the punishment for writing false petitions stringent to deter people from misleading the commission.
The N1 million fine was reduced to N500,000 without an option of jail term in the amendment considered and passed by the senate.Members of the national assembly and the ICPC, which has worked to expose corruption in the constituency projects scheme, have been at loggerheads.In September 2022, the ICPC said it recovered N2.8 billion worth of assets earlier diverted under the constituency projects scheme.
Akeem Lawal, ICPC’s director of operation, said it discovered cases of “bribery, signing off projects as completed, false certification of projects, vague description of projects, failure to deduct and remit appropriate taxes, and projects sited on private property of sponsors around project delivery”.
Lawal said under the Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Initiative , it was found that some of the projects were nominated in companies which they had interests in.
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