The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, has ordered the Police Service Commission, to refund N145.16 million, out of the N350 million election monitoring fund to the Federation Account.
This is contained in a document signed by the Chairman of ICPC, Ekpo Nta, in Abuja on Tuesday.
“The total amount of N133, 413,845.99 from the N350 million 2015 election monitoring exercise domiciled within FCMB be remitted to the Federal Treasury through the ICPC recovery account at Zenith Bank,” it said.
The commission also directed all staff who took part in the election monitoring to refund the N11.7 million paid to them as two-way return ticket and airport taxi within the FCT to the Federal treasury through ICPC recovery account.
“The Police Service Commission paid DTA to all staff including those based in Abuja that participated in the training progarmme held within Abuja.
“The investigation has not revealed any criminal infraction against Mike Okiro as all issues outlined above are administrative in nature,” he said.
It was confirmed that Mr. Okiro collected five days each for two conferences that ran simultaneously in Dublin and Orlando, Florida.
“However, it was discovered that he expended the entire 10 days on the trip using the ticket-fare for Abuja-Dublin-Abuja,” it said.
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