Ebonyi govt to open ICPC office

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Dave Umahi

EBONYI state government has promised to open anti-corruption office for ICPC to have unhindered access to the day to day financial running of the state government as he advocates for amnesty for alleged looters even.

Speaking while declaring open anti-corruption, ethics and integrity training for Ebonyi State local government officials by the Anti Corruption Academy of Nigeria, ACAN at the Akanu Ibiam International Conference Centre, Abakaliki, on Monday, Umahi noted that the training was to enlighten all the local government officials on the way to fight corruption.

He also lamented that wrong approach and unresolved cases involving various segments of corruption fighting in the country has made the country to remain under development as that approach by anti-corruption agencies had sent so many corrupt persons into hiding their loot and in some cases to the loss of the funds to both the federal government and the looters.

Umahi further warned that the Anti-graft agencies must purge themselves of all political manipulation for the fight against corruption to be effective.

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“We have so much of the looted funds trapped in foreign banks, some buried at the cemetery while many were buried underground where they were destroyed by termites but if there is a negotiation like committing the looters into subtly surrendering at least 70 per cent of the looted funds and keeping the rest or investing all the funds in the country, by so doing, we would have recovered the money and made use of it”

Earlier in her address, the representative of the Acting Chairman of ICPC, Mrs Rose Okoduwa said the training was to bring the Anti Corruption crusade closer to the grassroots using local government officials as vehicles of social re-engineering.

Mrs. Okoduwa commended the anti-corruption stance of the state government under Governor Umahi and urged the local government officials to shun corruption and other related offences.