The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has recommended administrative action against 13 public officials over their roles in the scandal involving the illegal Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).
The recommendation is contained in an ICPC investigation report examining how the organisation, which was not established by a valid legal instrument, gained access to government offices, financial systems and other administrative privileges.
The commission also recommended the prosecution of Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man who presented himself as the Director-General of the PFIPC, for forgery, impersonation, making false statements to public officers and criminal misrepresentation.
The recommendations offer a fresh indication of how deeply the purported agency penetrated the federal bureaucracy before the Presidency eventually disowned it.
The ICPC investigation followed President Bola Tinubu’s directive for a probe into the PFIPC. In its interim report submitted to the President on 6 August, which PREMIUM TIMES obtained, the commission said Mr Adeyemi was never appointed by the federal government and that the PFIPC was not established by any law, executive order or other valid government instrument.
