Wealthy civil servants to be investigated by FG’s anti-corruption agencies

It is believed that the anti-corruption agencies of the Federal Government have been mandated to investigate extremely wealthy public officers.

Punch Newspapers reports that the anti-corruption agencies will at the moment, focus on civil servants that have acquired several properties in the Federal Capital Territory.

The report states that operatives in the Assets Tracing, Recovery and Management Unit of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission had been asked to bring in suspects for interrogation and recovery of dubiously acquired assets in their possession.

An operative at the ICPC, revealed to Punch that the agency was using the anti-corruption transparency unit of the commission in ministries, departments and agencies to coordinate the ongoing investigation of the “super rich” civil servants in the country.

The source was quoted to have said: “The ICPC is intensifying efforts to retrieve some of these stolen assets from those involved. You know that the commission has a unit called the Assets Tracing, Recovery and Management Unit. This is the unit that is involved in probing those who have such assets with stolen funds.”

“In fact the operatives are working very discreetly on the issue but the focus of the ICPC’s probe is the civil service. Those civil servants living a life beyond their means, their lifestyles are under watch. People are monitoring them, whistle-blowers are writing petitions and the Assets Recovery Unit is following up on them.”

“Another thing is that we have the Anti-Corruption Transparency Units in all the agencies; these units are being supervised by our officers. They are collaborating with whistle-blowers in the various ministries and agencies.”

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