ICPC, CCB Slumber Cause Of Sleaze At LGAs – HURIWA

A charge has gone to the independent corrupt practices and other affiliated crimes commission (ICPC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to wake up from institutional slumber and monitor the financial dealings of Local Government Councils in the country.

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA in a statement made available to GWG lamented that the apparent compromise or institutional lethargy by ICPC and CCB was responsible for the offensive scale of grand corruption at the local government councils. The group said it was especially so regarding the operations of the states/local governments joint accounts.

Speaking on the increasing scale of corrupt practices at the local government councils, the Rights group through the National Coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko  and the National Media Affairs Director Miss Zainab Yusuf, tasked both the ICPC and CCB to work out strategies for carrying out effective oversight of the financial transactions of the local government councils because according to the group, it is the collapsed state of social amenities at the Local Government Councils created by the total non- existence of good governance standards at that third tier of government that has made millions of Nigerian families absolutely poor.

“We believe that the ICPC and the CCB may be colluding with state Chief executives so the vicious circles of fraud, disappearances of local government allocations from the federation accounts have continued to expand in leaps and bounds.”

“We wonder why the ICPC and the Code of Conduct Bureau have both become miserable toothless bulldogs that stand by whilst the common wealth belonging to the citizens at the grassroots are stolen by governors and their foot solders posted like colonial tax collectors by governors to their local government councils against section 7 of the constitution and democratization of local council.

HURIWA said the reason for the governors violating section 7 of the 1999 Constitution was to enable them post their boys and mistresses as administrators to continue to perpetuate the continuous heist of the council funds and they are getting away with these crimes against humanity because the institutions of ICPC and CCB that should effectively check and stop the financial leakage may be benefiting from the financial bonanza.

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