ICPC Confirms Questioning Gbajabiamila Over PFIPC, Says He Wasn't Arrested • Channels Television
The Nigerian anti-corruption agency, ICPC, questioned Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila regarding a fraudulent entity known as the PFIPC. The agency clarified that Gbajabiamila was invited for questioning and was not arrested, as part of an ongoing investigation into the fake council.
Why it matters
The investigation involves high-level government officials and concerns the integrity of administrative operations within the Nigerian Presidency.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has confirmed the questioning of the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, over the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC).
In a statement on Tuesday, the anti-corruption agency said the questioning was in line with President Bola Tinubu’s directive to the ICPC to investigate “how the PFIPC, an entity the Presidency has disowned as fraudulent, came to operate from within the Federal Secretariat, Abuja, for a reported period of about two years, under one Adeniyi Adeyemi Matthew, who is alleged to have paraded himself as the Director-General of the said Council.”
According to the ICPC, Gbajabiamila arrived at the Commission on Monday “and spent some time attending to enquiries from investigators, after which he departed the premises”.
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