The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has ordered the arrest of the suspended chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, SPIP, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla.
He is wanted by the anti-graft agency over alleged corrupt practices and abuse of office.
Obono-Obla who had denied the allegations against him, was declared wanted by the commission in October last year when he failed to appear before ICPC.
The order to effect his arrest was revealed on Friday by the spokesperson of the commission, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, at a press conference in Abuja.
Her words: “Signals have been sent to all the law enforcement agencies. Whenever they see him I am sure they will pick him up.”
Disclosing that ICPC was aware of his return to the country and the comments he had made against it, Okoduwa said he should visit the anti-graft office and clear his name instead of engaging in propaganda.
“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, 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.
