Of the 26
Directors-General and Heads of parastatals sacked yesterday, no fewer than 10
may be handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) and
the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission(ICPC)
for investigation, a source said last night.
It was gathered that President Muhammadu Buhari opted to
give some of the chief executives the push, following reports of
large-scale fraud in their agencies. One allegedly spent N200 billion on last
year’s Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) presidential campaign.
The agencies under the searchlight of either the EFCC or the
ICPC include National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control
(NAFDAC), National Broadcasting Commission(NBC), Federal Radio Corporation of
Nigeria (FRCN), Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE), National Women Development
Centre(NWDC); Industrial Training Fund(ITF); Nigerian Investment Promotion
Council; Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) and Nigeria Social Insurance Trust
Fund (NSIT), among others.