Hassle Looms For Buhari’s Aide, Bashir As ICPC Probes Payroll ‘Fraud’

The Unbiased Corrupt Practices Fee (ICPC) has commenced investigations into the alleged payroll fraud allegedly dedicated by President Muhammadu Buhari’s new media aide, Bashir Ahmad.

That is coming weeks after studies alleging that Bashir was receiving salaries from the Federal Authorities regardless of resigning from his place surfaced on social media.

ICPC famous that HEDA Useful resource Centre, a public-interest think-tank run by anti-corruption campaigner Lanre Suraju drew the fee’s consideration to the media aide’s motion.

The ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua mentioned: “We acquired a criticism and we’ve got commenced an investigation.

“Our investigation is preliminary at this stage to be able to set up accuracy of the knowledge we acquired after which we take it from there.”

The media aide, Ahmad, is alleged to have dedicated the fraud by means of the federal authorities payroll.

Paperwork Exposes Bashir Obtained Unlawful Salaries

On Might 11, after handing over his nomination and expression of curiosity paperwork for the All Progressives Congress Home of Representatives ticket, Ahmad deleted the time period “private assistant to the president on new media” signaling that he had ended his job as an aide to the president.

He subsequently started to establish himself as a former presidential aide throughout a number of marketing campaign rallies in his house state of Kano.

Nevertheless, the Built-in Payroll and Personnel Data System (IPPIS) for federal officers proven that Ahmad was paid thousands and thousands of {dollars} in Might, June, and July below his payroll quantity 372121.

Ahmad, after shedding out of the first election, acquired reappointed by Buhari and was mentioned to have refunded the illicit funds in full to the federal coffers for the months he was not in service.

He additionally failed to produce proof of the reimbursement or make clear what actions he took after receiving the primary, second and third salaries, in addition to federal allowances and estacodes, regardless of being a non-public citizen.