The new Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye has been sworn in.

Owasanoye becomes the fourth substantive chairman of ICPC since its inception after he took over the reins of office from the Acting Chairman and current Secretary of the Commission, Dr. Musa Usman Abubakar.

At a brief ceremony held at the Council Chamber of the State House in Abuja on Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari swore in eight other new board members of the anti-graft commission.

The new board members were Grace Chinda (Delta), Titus Okolo (Enugu), Obiora Igwedibia (Anambra), Justice Adamu Bello (Katsina), Olubukola Balogun (Lagos), Hannatu Muhammed (Jigawa), Abdulahi Saidu (Niger) and Yahaya Dauda (Nasarawa).

Speaking at the event, spokesperson for the ICPC, Rasheedat Okoduwa said President Buhari was particularly delighted that the ICPC law under which Owasanoye and the board members would operate was robust enough to assist government to sanitize the public sector in service delivery, public procurement, diversion of public revenue, deliberate misuse of public funds among others.

 

In his response, Owasanoye who will be in office for a five-year tenure which is renewable only once pledged to eschew, expose and fight corruption in all facets of government.