In an effort to sanitized the Nigeria society of corruption, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has recovered $700 million in stolen funds hidden in foreign accounts, alongside N7.3 billion traced to abandoned projects in Local government areas across Nigeria’s Northwest and Northeast.
This was disclosed by ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN), on Thursday during a one-day media dialogue with journalists in Kano.
The ICPC Boss maintained that additional recoveries included 14 buildings, 25 plots of land, and three farmlands were also seized from corrupt individuals.
Dr. Aliyu noted the importance of media partnership in sustaining anti-corruption momentum in the northern regions adding that citizens’ resilience against bribery and graft was growing.
“A joint UNODC–NBS survey revealed that the Northwest recorded the highest bribe refusal rate in Nigeria at 76%, while the Northeast stood at 60%. Reports of bribery in the two regions also rose from 4.7% in 2019 to 13.4% in 2023, with formal action on reported cases tripling within the same period”. he said.
He however pledged stronger deployment of technology and operatives across the 36 states to consolidate the Commission’s gains in tackling graft.
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