ICPC Recovers N271bn In North West, North East, In 2 Years

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has revealed that it had recovered astir N271.054 cardinal from the Northwest and the Northeast retired of 1,440 projects tracked betwixt May 2022 and July 2025.

The president of the committee Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, made the revelation yesterday successful Kano astatine a One-day media store for journalists successful the Northwest and the Northeast.

“A full of 1,440 projects were tracked, valued astatine astir N271.054 billion.

“Of these, 767 projects valued astatine N112.737 cardinal were successful the Northeast, and 673 projects valued astatine N158.317 cardinal were successful the Northwest”, helium stated.

He besides revealed that currency recoveries totalling N7.269 cardinal were made successful the Northwest, N43.335 cardinal successful the Northeast, and an further $1.06 cardinal was recovered from the Northwest.

Speaking astir assets, the president besides revealed that the ICPC recovered 14 buildings, 25 plots of land, and 3 farmlands wrong the said play of time.

However, the ICPC president explained that lone 4 convictions were recorded by the committee successful the Northwest and nary from the Northeast from a full of 171 cases investigated successful the 2 regions, though lone 15 cases were filed earlier the court, with 9 from the Northwest and six others from the Northeast.

While calling connected the National Assembly to expedite the transition of the Whistleblower Bill to empower citizens to combat corruption, helium besides appealed to the media to enactment the efforts of the committee done investigative journalism.

“I entreaty to the media to enactment our efforts done investigative journalism, holding leaders accountable with facts, and avoiding sensationalism that could undermine spot successful our corporate fight”, helium stated.

He further quoted the NBS/UNODC’s corruption figures successful Nigeria, stating that the 5 astir captious problems affecting the state are the precocious outgo of living, crime/insecurity, unemployment, corruption, and healthcare.

“The archetypal 3 are large drivers of corruption, portion healthcare suffers a effect of it. In different words, corruption is not conscionable different problem, it is the thread that worsens the others, and the astir unsafe situation we indispensable frontally code arsenic a nation,” helium said.

He added that the figures from the UNODC survey uncover that Northwest records the highest bribe refusal complaint successful the country, astatine 76 percent, with Northeast signaling 60 percent.

“This shows that mean radical are consenting to basal against corruption. We astatine the ICPC salute this steadfastness,” helium declared.