Protesters Storm ICPC Headquarters, Seek $4b Refinery Funds Probe

Hundreds of protesters, led by the Concerned Lawyers and Citizens Network (CLCN), stormed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) office successful Abuja connected Thursday. They demanded an contiguous probe into $2.896 cardinal successful rehabilitation funds.

In a code delivered by Sambari G. Benjamin, Esq., the CLCN accused a conglomerate institution with ties to Engineer Mele Kolo Kyari, erstwhile Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), of being a beforehand for laundering stolen nationalist funds.

The radical pointed to the mysterious disappearance of $2.896 cardinal allocated for rehabilitating the Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries, which stay non-functional contempt the monolithic investment.

“We are present due to the fact that thing is profoundly wrong,” Benjamin declared to supporters and journalists, stating that the institution is not conscionable successful a business; it is simply a vas of wealth laundering, a ammunition of secrecy, and a beforehand for repurposing stolen nationalist funds.”

The protesters demanded that the ICPC motorboat a full-scale probe into each institution linked to Kyari, particularly their fiscal dealings erstwhile helium was astatine NNPCL, exposure its investors and directors, and retrieve each kobo allegedly diverted from the refinery funds.

They besides called for accountability for each individuals involved, careless of their influence.

“We talk for the mechanic successful Kaduna, the parent successful Warri, and the younker successful Port Harcourt who person been robbed of opportunity, dignity, and truth,” Benjamin said.

“This is astir justness and restoring religion successful our institutions.”

The CLCN vowed to proceed their agitation until the information is revealed and justness is served, informing that Nigerians volition not beryllium silenced oregon intimidated.

“Let this time beryllium remembered arsenic the infinitesimal Nigerians stood up and said: Enough is capable with the theft of our commonwealth,” Benjamin concluded.