Gov. Fashola, Amaechi, Akpabio, Kwankwaso Under Probe by ICPC

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has set up a task force to probe eight former governors in the country over alleged mismanagement of public funds.

“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 to coordinate the investigation in the states. So we are reopening the petitions through the Chairman of the Special Task Force.”

A top operative of the commission, who confided in Punch, said that the task force was set up following petitions written against the former governors.

It was learnt that top operatives of the commission working in the task force had been dispatched to the states to carry out the probe of the affected former governors.

A top operative of the commission said that the former governors were Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano; Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema of Katsina and Sullivan Chime of Enugu State.

The source said that the other four were on the waiting list.

The former governors on the waiting list, according to the source are, Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, Godswiil Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Martin Elechi of Ebonyi and Alhaji Sule Lamido of Jigawa.