President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not implicated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.
The ICPC made the clarification following reports that files indicting highly exposed persons such as former governors and ministers have been carted away from the ICPC by the Department of State Services, DSS.
The report claimed that files indicting President Tinubu were carted away by the secret police during its raid of the Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The DSS has also removed files allegedly indicting Tinubu and some officials in the Presidency from ICPC and Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, the report said.
Recall that Tinubu was in 2014 arraigned before the ICPC, even though he was later released and no case has been filed against him since then.
Reacting to the report, the ICPC said in a statement that it has no files implicating the president.
ICPC said on its official Twitter handle that the report was untrue, as no files implicating Tinubu were in their possession.
“The alleged carting away of such imaginary files is unfounded and should be disregarded by the public,” the commission said.
“For the umpteenth time, the commission wishes to urge media organisations not to allow the use of their medium to propagate lies and unfounded reports by subversive agents,” the commission said.
