FEC: Buhari Swears-in ICPC Board Members

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in seven members to the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).

The inauguration, which followed the confirmation by the Nigerian Senate, took place at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday.

The new ICPC members are Adamu Bello (Katsina State); Hannatu Mohammed (Jigawa State); Olubukola Balogun (Lagos State); Obiora Igwedibia (Anambra State); Abdullahi Saidu (Niger State); Yahaya Dauda (Nasarawa State) and Grace Chinda (Rivers State).

They add to five other ICPC board members confirmed by the Senate about a year ago.

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They include Anthony Agbo from Ebonyi State representing the South-east zone; Anne Otelafu Odey from Cross River State representing South-south, and Goni Gujba from Yobe State representing North-east.

The rest are Louis Mandama from Adamawa State representing the North-east, and Olugbenga Adeyanju, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) from Ekiti State representing the South-west zone.

Sources in the presidential villa revealed to Economic Confidential that the President who is gradually winding down his activities as President of Nigeria, is using the FEC meeting to review ongoing projects which his administration promised to complete and handover before May 29, 2023.

The projects include the Lagos – Ibadan expressway, Abuja- Kaduna- Kano road, as well as the Abuja-Maradi rail and other ongoing projects, which his administration had promised to commission before handing over to the incoming administration on the May 29, 2023.

The President had also promised to deliver on the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna refineries before handing over on May 29th.

Other projects include the 2nd Niger bridge and the 2023 National Population Census.