Shehu Dikko hits back at ICPC for property confiscation

Following the seizure of the home of former Nigeria Soccer Federation vp, Alh Shehu Dikko by the ICPC, the previous has replied the anti-corruption company.

 

The Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) had seized the previous NFF huge whip for corruption, stating that the worth of the property in query is much in extra of previous and current earnings of the previous LMC Chairman.

“The Fee is of the opinion primarily based on the aforementioned investigation that this immovable property owned by Mr Shehu Dikko is extreme having regard to his current and previous emoluments and all different circumstances,” ICPC mentioned in an advertorial on two Nationwide Newspapers – The Punch and The Day by day Belief.

 

Nevertheless, Dikko has replied the ICPC via his authorized representatives, stating that these properties had been acquired by their principal earlier than he turned the vp of the NFF.

 

“This unfair media trial has been happening since 2019 when the ICPC printed notices in newspapers for seizure of my shopper’s and his colleagues’ belongings with none court docket order to again the forfeiture of my shopper’s belongings nor inviting our purchasers to elucidate,” mentioned Mohammed Sani Katu.

 

“We instantly engaged the ICPC and so they invited our shopper to offer paperwork on the properties and he honoured and offered all proofs to indicate that every one his belongings are official.

 

“Basically, the very fact is that my shopper personal the properties lengthy earlier than he joined NFF in 2015,” Katu advised BBC Sport Africa.

 

Katu, Dikko consultant asserts that the case ought to have been thrown out and calls for an apology for his shopper even because the anti-corruption says it’ll proceed to analyze Nigeria’s huge soccer figures.

 

There are reviews of that the ICPC remains to be investigating different former and current prime weapons within the NFF; Amaju Pinnick, Seyi Akinwunmi and Ahmed Recent.