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New ICPC Chairman Assumes Office
The new chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof, Bolaji Owasanoye, has been sworn in.
Owasanoye is the fourth substantive chairman of ICPC since its inception and has by the swearing-in taken over the reins of office from the acting chairman, Dr. Musa Usman Abubakar, who is the commission’s secretary.
President Muhammadu Buhari swore in Owasanoye yesterday at a brief ceremony in the Council Chamber, State House.
Also sworn in were eight other new board members of the commission.
ICPC spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, said that Buhari noted that he was “particularly delighted that the ICPC law under which you will operate is robust enough to assist government to sanitise the public sector in service delivery, public procurement, diversion of public revenue, deliberate misuse of public funds, and so on.”
Responding, the new chairman swore to eschew, expose and fight corruption.
Other members of the commission are Grace Chinda (Delta state), Titus Okolo (Enugu), Obiora Igwedebia (Anambra), Justice Adamu Bello (Katsina), Olubukola Balogun (Lagos), Hannatu Muhammed (Jigawa), Abdulahi Saidu (Niger) and Yahaya Dauda (Nasarawa).
The chairman will be in office for a tenure of five years, which is renewable only once, while the board members have a four-year tenure that is also renewable once.
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