President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, ordered the immediate arrest of George Nwabueze and the suspension of three permanent secretaries — M.S Danjuma, Nadungu Gagare, and Richard Pheelangwah.
BusinessDay gathered that George Buchi Nwabueze is allegedly operating as head of a “National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office”, another “fake agency”, recently uncovered by the federal government
The directives, BusinessDay gathered, followed the discovery of the fake agency in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF.
Musa Adamu Aliyu, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission ICPC disclosed this after briefing with President Tinubu at the State House in Abuja on Friday.
He revealed that the suspension follows an investigation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) into a fake government agency uncovered within the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).
The inquiry centres around a newly uncovered fake agency and ongoing probes into a fraudulent body known as the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) operating inside the SGF’s premises.
Office spaces within restricted federal zones were illegally allocated to these unauthorised entities.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) uncovered the purported fake agency in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation
Adamu said the new fake agency was disclosed as part of the ongoing investigation into the fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, which was operated by Adeyemi Matthew.
He said office space was illegally allotted to the agency within the premises of the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
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