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  • About Ekpo Nta’s modesty

    About Ekpo Nta’s modesty

    TO show that he practices what he preaches,the Chairman Of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) Barrister Ekpo Nta, last weekend gave out his daughter, Idorenyin in marriage in a moderated wedding ceremony which was completely bereft of affluence befitting his status as a government official.

    The event which was held in Cross Rivers according to attendees, served as a standard for disciplined public servants who may be planning such event in the future.

    The holy soleminsation which took place at St Bernard’s Catholic Church Marian Hill, Calabar, had regulated the caliber of guests.

    Nta, it was gathered refrained from inviting officials of Federal Government including Ministers and heads of parastatals, state governors as well as other celebrities to the wedding ceremony for obvious reasons. He was also said to have discouraged many of them, his friends, who earlier indicated interest in attending the ceremony on an excuse that the wedding programme would be low keyed.

    Only his close friends, immediate family members and acquaintances were said to have attended the Church service and reception for the wedding which attendees said had passed for a new standard for any moderate public officer to emulate.

    Ekpo Nta since becoming ICPC Chairman has been advocating a new approach to the fight against corruption with insistence that the fight should no longer be taken to the media arena.

  • Idorenyin hooks Gabriel

    Idorenyin hooks Gabriel

    CHAIRMAN of Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mr. Ekpo Nta, last Saturday gave out his daughter Idorenyin at a holy matrimony at St Bernard’s Catholic Church Marian Hill, Calabar to Elo Gabriel Itoye. Here Barrister Ekpo Nta and his wife Eno flank the couple at the reception.

  • House of Reps lauds ICPC

    House of Reps lauds ICPC

    The House Of Representatives Committee on anti-Corruption and National Ethics has commended the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for its efforts at reducing the menace off corruption in the country.

    The chairman of the committee, Abiodun Faleke, who gave the commendation at the end of budget defence by the chairman of ICPC, Mr. Ekpo Nta at the National Assembly, explained that the commission was doing its best in its task of ridding the country of corrupt vices, adding “yet little is being done in terms of funding this Commission.”

    He said if ICPC was allowed to use part of the money recovered from suspects, the challenge of funding facing the commission would have been reduced.

    He assured the ICPC chairman that the committee would write a letter to the Budget Office on the need to increase the budgetary allocation of the commission.

    Faleke stressed the need for the commission to always carry along members of its committee in the course of carrying out their assignments. “Let us know what you are doing so that we will know when to come in whenever there is a challenge”.

    The committee chairman also charged the leadership of the commission to embark on massive publicity of its achievements so that Nigerians could appreciate the good work being done by it.

    Earlier in his presentation, Nta disclosed how operatives of the commission arrested some junior civil servants and an ex-bank staff for operating fake pension accounts with the latter who had opened over 50 bank accounts with a first generation bank.

    Mr. Nta said the officer was able to operate the 50 different bank accounts successfully as he kept a diary containing the different bank accounts, the names allocated to each of the accounts and their signatures for easy transaction.

     

    The ICPC Chairman informed the committee members that it was the intervention of the ICPC in 2013 that led to the remittance of over N469.325 million to the Sub Treasury of the Federation as accrued interest on pension fund bank deposits.