BY AYO OLOWO
The ongoing anti-corruption fight has been taken to the doors of eight former governors by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).
An operative of the commission, on Wednesday, said that the task force was set up following petitions written against the former governors, on issues relating to contracts awarded by their administration.
It was gathered that top operatives of the ICPC who are part of the task force had been dispatched to the states to carry out the probe of the affected former governors.
The source revealed that the former governors affected are:
Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State;
Chief Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers,
Alhaji Ibrahim Shema of Katsina
Sullivan Chime of Enugu State.
Four were said to be on the waiting list.
The former governors on the waiting list, according to the source are:
Mr. Raji Fashola of Lagos State,
Godswiil Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State,
Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State
Alhaji Sule Lamido of Jigawa State.
The source said, “It is true that we are going after eight former governors. The investigation against four of the former governors of Rivers, Katsina, Kano and Enugu has commenced.
“However, the commission has listed four other former governors who are on the waiting list because of petitions against them. They are the immediate past governors of Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi and Jigawa States.
“A Special Task Force was set up by the Chairman of the commission last week to coordinate the investigation in the states. So we are reopening the petitions through the Chairman of the Special Task Force.”
