The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it might revisit the case files of 20 former state governors it indicted for corruption in 2008.
\nActing Chairman of the commission, Mr. Abdullahi Bako, told newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday that the case files were shelved due to a combination of legal and financial impediments.
\n\u201cThe cases came up when the governors were still in office, and the law provides for the setting up of an independent council to investigate them.
\n\u201cUnfortunately, at that time, the Office of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, which was to appoint the council, had no money to pay for such gigantic operation or assignment
\n\u201cThat was why nothing was done about it. But the files may be revisited now that they have left office, especially of those with prima facie cases against them.
\nThe News Agency of Nigeria<\/em>\u00a0recalls that the commission in mid 2008 announced the setting up of a committee to investigate several petitions of alleged corrupt acts against the governors.
\nAt the end of the exercise, 20 of the ex-governors, whose identities were not released by the commission, were allegedly found to have violated the ICPC Act.
\nBako also told newsmen on Tuesday that the commission was awaiting the directive of the Federal Government on what to do with the assets recovered from the looters.
\n\u201cWe are not auctioning the assets. There is a body set up by the government to audit recovered assets all over the country and abroad.
\n\u201cIt is left for the government to decide thereafter; it is not for the individual anti-corruption agencies to dispose of anything,\u2019\u2019 he said.
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