Mr Okiro, who is currently the chairman of Police Service Commission (PSC), was invited to the ICPC's offices yesterday and arrived in the morning accompanied by three aides. He went straight into the investigation department of the commission where he was asked to respond to a petition by a member of staff, Aaron Kaase, claiming that he siphoned N275m out of the N350m that was obtained from the Office of the National Security Adviser to train PSC staff.
Dressed in an ash coloured Niger Delta attire with a cap to match, Mr Okiro came in a convoy that included a black Toyota Land Cruiser Jeep and a black Toyota Camry. In his petition, Mr Kaase alleged that Mr Okiro had made bogus claims to train highly inflated numbers of PSC staff in Lagos, Abuja and Kano.
According to Mr Kaase, the trainings were roughly carried out to a few staff in Mararaba, a satellite community of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. He also alleged that Mr Okiro and others claimed some millions of naira for separate overseas trainings, which they never attended.
In addition, the petition said that Mr Okiro and others allegedly siphoned the said amount, claiming they would train 500 staff in Abuja, 200 in Lagos and another 200 in Kano, when the combined staff strength of the commission nationwide was not more than 400. Mr Kaase also stated that in Kano where 200 members of staff were said to be trained, the staff strength was merely 10.
Over the last week since President Muhammadu Buhari has assumed office, the former Adamawa State governor Murtala Nyako and the ex-Borno State governor Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff have been quizzed over corruption. President Buhari campaigned on a platform of fighting corruption in Nigeria and introducing sanity in public life.
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