President Bola Tinubu has ordered the immediate arrest of Prince George Buchi Nwabueze in connection with the discovery of the National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office.
The President has also ordered the immediate suspension of three Permanent Secretaries: M.S Danjuma, Engineer Nadungu Gagare, and Richard P. Pheelangwah, over the discovery.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission, ICPC, uncovered the purported fake agency in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume.
The chairman of the ICPC Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after a meeting with the President on Friday.
Adamu said the new fake agency was discovered duringuju the ongoing investigation into the fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, which was operated by Adeyemi Matthew.
He said office space was illegally allotted to the agency within the premises of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation”.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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