{"id":140329,"date":"2019-08-02T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140329"},"modified":"2019-08-02T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:51:52","slug":"constituency-projects-icpc-seals-home-of-federal-lawmaker-over-n100m-shoddy-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140329","title":{"rendered":"Constituency projects: ICPC seals home of federal lawmaker over N100m shoddy deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Enugu State on Friday said it has sealed the premises of a federal lawmaker from Enugu North Senatorial Zone of the state.<\/p>\n

A statement by the Head, Public Enlightenment and Education Unit of the commission, Mr Suleiman Godwin said the action followed an alleged plan by the lawmaker to stash away items procured for constituency intervention in the zone.<\/p>\n

Godwin said that items worth over N100 million were involved in the shoddy deal.<\/p>\n

The statement read in part: \u201cOperatives of the ICPC, Enugu Office has traced to the country home of a prominent politician from Uzo Uwani Local Government Area of the state items purchased for intervention in the zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discovery followed the constituency projects tracking of the ICPC as directed by the chairman of the commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong the items seized are 51 tricycles, 228 motorcycles, 203 grinding machines and five electricity transformers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe premises in which the items were stashed away has been sealed by the ICPC,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Godwin further stated that the commission had begun investigations on the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Enugu State on Friday said it has sealed the premises of a federal lawmaker from Enugu North Senatorial Zone of the state. A statement by the Head, Public Enlightenment and Education Unit of the commission, Mr Suleiman Godwin said the action followed an alleged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[703,615],"class_list":["post-140329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-enugu","tag-icpc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}