The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has commenced investigation into the federal payroll fraud committed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s new media aide Bashir Ahmad.
According to Peoples Gazette, it was gathered on Monday afternoon that Mr Ahmad’s action had been brought to the commission’s attention by way of HEDA Resource Centre, a public-interest think-tank run by anti-corruption campaigner Lanre Suraju. “We received a complaint and we have commenced an investigation,” ICPC spokeswoman Azuka Ogugua told The Gazette by telephone. “Our investigation is preliminary at this stage in order to establish accuracy of the information we received and then we take it from there.”
Ms Ogugua did not immediately give a timeline of her agency’s investigation, but an anti-graft official familiar with the matter said Mr Ahmad would soon be invited for questioning about the fraud.