ICPC increases charges against fake PFIPC boss, Adeyemi

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has filed an amended complaint against Adeniyi Adeyemi, who allegedly presented himself arsenic the director-general of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.

The committee has accrued the charges from 22 to 36 and added 4 different defendants to the case.

ICPC's prosecuting counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, disclosed this during proceedings connected Monday.

The 4 recently named defendants are Aminu Abdullahi, Ogaba Harry, Florence Omameh and Patricia Akhigbe.

The lawsuit was initially instituted by the Nigeria Police Force earlier the ICPC took implicit the prosecution.

Monday's sitting was initially scheduled for the proceeding of Adeyemi's bail application. However, the amended charges meant that each the defendants had to look successful tribunal to instrumentality their pleas.

The arraignment could not proceed due to the fact that the 4th ...