The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has directed the Chairman, Police Service Commission, Mike Okiro, to remit N133m to the Federal Treasury through the ICPC recovery account at First City Monument Bank.

This was the balance of the N350m he received from the Federal Government for staff training and physical monitoring of police personnel during the last general elections.

The ICPC also ordered the workers of the commission who were paid two-way return tickets and airport taxi fares to location within the Federal Capital Territory and states close to Abuja during the monitoring exercise to refund to the treasury N11.75m.

“Consequently, this Commission hereby directs as follows that the total balance of N133,413,845.99 from the N350,000,000 2015 election monitoring exercise domiciled within FCMB be remitted to the Federal Treasury through the ICPC Recovery Account No. 1012929790 at Zenith Bank Plc,” it directed.

The anti-graft agency said this in its report of investigations into allegations of graft levelled against Okiro by a PSC worker, Solomon Kaase, who petitioned the ICPC in May, 2015 over alleged moves by Okiro to swindle the PSC to the tune of N275m.

He alleged that the retired Inspector-General of Police claimed that the money would be used to train 900 PSC workers when the total number of the workers of the commission was 391.

The ICPC confirmed that the PSC had only 391 workers contrary to 900 claimed by Okiro.

It said, “Investigation findings revealed that the commission budgeted for training of 900 (members of) staff and to conduct training in Abuja, Lagos and Kano.

“However, the entire staff force was not more that 391 and that is the figure actually trained in a programme held in Abuja only. The commission accepted the explanation that due process could not be adhered to strictly because of time constraint.”

The report signed by the ICPC Chairman, Ekpo Nta, and dated August 6, 2015, said investigation revealed that the commission paid daily travelling allowances to all members of staff including those based in Abuja that participated in the training programme held within Abuja.

“Air tickets and DTA were paid to management staff and others who monitored elections within Abuja and its environs; even at locations where airports do not exist such as Lokoja and Minna,” the report, which was addressed to the commission’s Permanent Secretary, stated.

The ICPC observed that the PSC chairman collected money for two conferences that ran simultaneously in Dublin and Orlando, Florida, noting that he did expend the ticket fare for the Dublin trip.

The agency, however, said Okiro had written to the Presidency to expend the ticket fare for Abuja-Orlando-Abuja on another trip coming up in October, 2015, stressing that it (ICPC) should be informed if the request was turned down.

When a former IG is caught stealing,then we are in a big mess in this country. Who are we then to trust? Okiro should be in his 70s,i guess.
Anyways,old men steal too....Okiro should not just return the money he should face the wrath of the law...at least he wont be the first former IG that would be jailed

People of rotten character even @ old age will not change

In November 2008 and again in February 2009, the Chairman of the House Committee on Police Affairs, Abdul Ahmed Ningi, asked Mike Okiro to provide details of the money recovered from the former IGP Tafa Balogun, a request that he passed on to the EFCC chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri. However, the EFCC stated that they did not have records of the exact properties recovered from Balogun.[9] In April 2009, the House of Representatives Committee on Police Affair invited Tafa Balogun, Mike Okiro and Mrs Farida Waziri to explain how the N16 billion allegedly recovered from Balogun got missing.[10] The money was never recovered.

Shortly before his retirement in July 2009, the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) accused Mike Okiro of failing to repay a N166 million loan he obtained between 2000 and 2001 from the Lead Bank Ltd, which unable to recover the loan from Okiro, was thus forced into liquidation.[15] Okiro used a front company Hekiro Limited for the bank loan, as he had used in the Abuja land deal of 2008. Okiro was said to have obtained the loan to finance a pipeline contract awarded by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to his firm Hekiro Nigeria Limited.[16] Okiro threatened court action against the NDIC unless it tendered an unreserved apology, but the NDIC maintained their position.

In 2008, Okiro again used his front company, Hekiro Limited, to buy a parcel of land at 795 Cadatral Zone in Gudu District Abuja from Igwe Godwin Madu, for N130 million, of which he deposited of N70 million. He then refused to pay the balance. He used the Nigerian Police Force to harrass the seller to forego the outstanding amount. Madu then went to court but Okiro refused to show up in court and enter a defense. Instead, Okiro invited Madu to come to Louis Edet House, the national police headquarters, to force Madu to sign the "deed of assignment" for the land.[18]

Okiro filed a defense claiming that the land seller had refused to sign the deed of assignment. The judge then adjourned the case to request Madu to appear in court to sign the deed and collect the remainder of the payment from the IGP. But again Okiro did not turned up and the judge awarded a ruling in favor of the plaintiff. Okiro was instructed to pay the balance of N50 million and interests accrued at prevailing market rate.

Okiro put his children as directors of another front company Bharmoss Ventures Limited, a company in which his children were directors - Yvonne Okiro, Omolara Okiro, Innocent Okiro and Samuel Okiro, and Dickson Ibikunle. The company was registered in October 1993 and for their personal addresses in Bharmoss Ventures Ltd registration,the Okiro's children used 18 Ladejobi Street, Ikeja, Lagos. That is the official residence of the deputy commissioner of police in charge of administration in the Lagos Police Command, Ikeja. At that time, Mike Okiro was holding that same post. When Bharmoss Ventures Ltd was registered in 1993, some of his childred-directors were barely older that 10 years old.[19] In 2004-2005, Bharmoss Ventures received huge unspecified contracts from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)

On Jan 27, 2009, online news media Sahara Reporter reported that Mike Okiro was accused of scamming potential police recruits of N2 billion, out of the sum realized from N2000 charged each potential recruit who applied online. A committee of the House of Representatives recently learnt that Okiro planned to pay 60% of the realized amount to consultants. The consultancy fees amount to N1.2 billion

Nihi Ribadu, the former EFCC boss and a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, had told a London court that James Ibori was instrumental to Mike Okiro’s appointment as IGP, a claim Mr. Okiro debunked, accusing the former EFCC boss of falsehood. According to Ribadu, the former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, helped Okiro to secure his appointment as the IGP. Ibori also helped Okiro to be appointed as Chief Security Officer to the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and later as Chairman of the Police Service Commission, PSC.[24]

Chai nigeria. I pray Coruption will not kill u.

What shall it profit a man to gain the whole wealth and loose his reputation. These old old are never ashamed of themselves, failed generation of thieves. That man shldspend the rest of his rubbish life in Jail.

133m right? Well when he eventually recovers the 'alleged' loot, only a quarter of it will hit the national coffers! ICPC my ass!

133m right? Well when he eventually recovers the 'alleged' loot, only a quarter of it will hit the national coffers! ICPC my azz!

Nigeria will be great again