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ICPC invites Dangote and ex-NMDPRA boss

by Yusuf Alli


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The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has invited businessman, Aliko Dangote for more information in respect of his petition against the immediate past managing director of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Alhaji Farouk Ahmed.

Dangote is expected to appear or send his lawyer, Ogwu Onoja (SAN) tomorrow when ICPC’s investigation of the petition formally commences.

The commission raised a panel of crack investigators on Friday to handle the probe,The Nation learnt yesterday.

The ICPC ,according to sources ,has asked Dangote to submit his evidence to the anti-graft agency.

Dangote had accused Farouk of corruption and misappropriation of funds, including spending millions of dollars on his four children’s education in expensive and exclusive schools in Switzerland.

The businessman accused Farouk of economic sabotage by undermining domestic refining by colluding with international traders and oil importers through the continued issuance of import licences.

Farouk has since resigned his appointment.

But the commission said it is going ahead with the investigation, Farouk’s resignation notwithstanding.

“All is set for the investigation, ” a well- placed source in ICPC told The Nation yesterday.

“ICPC has set up a panel of crack investigators on Dangote’s petition. The Chairman of the commission, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN) asked the trusted team to stay action on a case and focus on Dangote’s petition. This underscores the importance attached to this case,” the source said.

“We have also invited Dangote or his lawyer to come on Monday to adopt the petition. “Either of them is to present relevant documents or evidence to support the petition.

“He who alleges must prove or provide lead on the allegations which our investigators must act on.

“We have acknowledged the receipt of the petition in line with our guidelines or mandate to do so within 48 hours.”

Continuing, the source said :”after formal adoption of the petition, we will isolate issues and ask Ahmed to respond to the allegations.

“We have been inundated with enquiries but I can assure you that ICPC will be fair to all the parties.”

Responding to a question, the source added: “The resignation of Ahmed does not affect this probe which is in the public interest.”

“Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act (ICPC Act 2000) makes it an offence for any public officer to use his/her position to confer an unfair or corrupt advantage on himself, his relatives, associates, or other public officers.Anyone found guilty of any such offence is liable to five years imprisonment without the option of a fine.

“The enabling law also stipulates harsh punishment for individuals deemed to have wasted ICPC’s time and resources by making malicious or frivolous petitions against others.”

In the petition submitted on Tuesday through his lawyer, Ogwu Onoja SAN), Dangote demanded the arrest, investigation and prosecution of Farouk for allegedly living above his means as a public servant.

He accused Farouk of “spending without evidence of lawful means of income amounting to over $7 million for the education of his four children” in Switzerland.

The document named the children and their schools and provided specific amounts paid for verification.

“Engr Farouk Ahmed spent without evidence of lawful means of income humongous amount of money of over $7million of public funds, for the education of his four children in different schools in Switzerland for a period of six years upfront,” Dangote alleged.

“It is without doubt that the above facts in relation to abuse of office, breach of the Code of Conduct for public officers, corrupt enrichment and embezzlement constitute gross acts of corrupt practices, for which ICPC is statutorily empowered under section 19 of the ICPC Act to investigate and prosecute,” Dangote added.

The cold war between Dangote and petroleum regulators had earlier sparked a N100billion suit.

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE filed a N100 billion lawsuit at the Federal High Court in Abuja challenging import licences issued by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and others, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

The refinery accused the regulator of granting licences to import refined petroleum products despite domestic production capacity.

It alleged that the action of the regulator has violated some sections of the Petroleum Industry Act.

The suit, FHC/ABJ/CS/1324/2024, was discontinued in July 2025 by Dangote’s lawyers.

ICPC petition guidelines say: “Any person anywhere in the world may make a complaint against any other person (corporate or non- corporate) in Nigeria, where reasonable grounds exist for suspecting that such a person has conspired to commit or attempted to commit or has committed an offence under the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.

●Complaint/petition is made through oral/written report submitted through post, physically to any ICPC office in Nigeria.

●A complaint made orally or by an illiterate shall be reduced into writing and read over to the complainant by an officer of the Commission.

● The report shall set out details of the complaint , date, time and place where the offence was allegedly committed.

●The complainant shall provide the names and addresses, phone number, email and other relevant information that may assist the Commission in locating the person or persons against whom the complaint is made.

●The complainant shall state his/her full address, email or phone number or any other information that will assist the commission in contacting him/her, whenever necessary.

●Reports can also be made online through any of the commission’s reporting platforms.

●The commission shall acknowledge receipt of any petition within 48 hours.

Spokesperson of ICPC , John Okor Odey confirmed that the commission “received a formal petition on Tuesday, 16th December, 2025 from Alhaji Aliko Dangote through his lawyer. The petition is against the CEO of the NMDPRA, Alhaji Farouk Ahmed. The ICPC wishes to state that the petition will be duly investigated.”

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Dangote don enter potopoto

No be Farouk dem suppos3 invite...shuooo

Efcc, icpc, DSS, police and the immigration be at alert, Mr faruk must not escape.

Good move by ICPC.

Details of the ongoing investigation would be interesting to read.

$7m for school fees? That's too much even for a minister.

Farouk must have some juicy secrets to have been targeted by Dangote.

The good news is that there would be no sacred cow in the investigation

Dangote was aware of Farouk's reckless spending before now but decided to only voice out when is business is about to be affected.

The who think dangote is fighting for the interest of the masses should go and have a rethink.

Dangote is a coded politician and a business man combined.

He deliberately lowered the price of petroleum far below that of the importers before launching a serious fight against farouk lawal so as to gain public sympathy and trust.

He will later increase the price of petrol once he silence those issuing license to importers and force all petroleum marketers to depend on his product alone.
By then, no one will be able to compete with him. He may even decide to buy up other small small modular refineries in the future.

I am not denying the fact that farouk lawal is a very corrupt man who should be jailed for life. But why is dangote just speaking out?

I missed Aregbesoĺa.......He would have Declared Christmas Holiday ever since...

Man can declare holidays for Africa

Aliko Dangote is a national treasure. We should protect him at all costs.

Funny how the findings won’t be made public. The legislature been won hijack am dem say dem won settle amicably instead of probing😂

Dangote can not lie tbh and for those saying he is trying to monopolize the market una brain dey pain una.

If person fit use $7m pay school fee imagine how much he go don steal. This kind of crime should be worse than kidnapping. Africa will change the moment we treat corruption like the disease that it is and give strict penalty like make dem kpai the person at least dem pass d law to kpai kidnappers only cos e dey affect the rich.

Funny how these won’t be made public

PrivateSeal:
Dangote don enter potopoto

What potopoto for a caliber of Dangote

Godfullsam:
Dangote was aware of Farouk's reckless spending before now but decided to only voice out when is business is about to be affected.

The who think dangote is fighting for the interest of the masses should go and have a rethink.

Dangote is a coded politician and a business man combined.

He deliberately lowered the price of petroleum far below that of the importers before launching a serious fight against farouk lawal so as to gain public sympathy and trust.

He will later increase the price of petrol once he silence those issuing license to importers and force all petroleum marketers to depend on his product alone.
By then, no one will be able to compete with him. He may even decide to buy up other small small modular refineries in the future.

I am not denying the fact that farouk lawal is a very corrupt man who should be jailed for life. But why is dangote just speaking out?

All this whataboutism just to defend a thief.. Dangote is not a government and so his job is not to fish for thief but that of the government.. Speaking up when his interest his threatened is what every sane human will do.. That he even have the hit to speak up is a great kudos to him.. We too like to dey make case for thieves in this country while pretending to not care.. Farouk is a their qed

Hope they aren't planning to cover up the case tho.

Godfullsam:
Dangote was aware of Farouk's reckless spending before now but decided to only voice out when is business is about to be affected.

The who think dangote is fighting for the interest of the masses should go and have a rethink.

Dangote is a coded politician and a business man combined.

He deliberately lowered the price of petroleum far below that of the importers before launching a serious fight against farouk lawal so as to gain public sympathy and trust.

He will later increase the price of petrol once he silence those issuing license to importers and force all petroleum marketers to depend on his product alone.
By then, no one will be able to compete with him. He may even decide to buy up other small small modular refineries in the future.

I am not denying the fact that farouk lawal is a very corrupt man who should be jailed for life. But why is dangote just speaking out?

Of course, it's when it affected his business that he investigated and voiced out the fraud by Fakrook.

You want him to act as Nigeria's EFCC or what

Dangote the biggest whistle blower in Nigeria

ebukal67x:
Aliko Dangote is a national treasure. We should protect him at all costs.

if people talk dangote own you go know.. Mind you dangote have backing of who is who in politics.

ebukal67x:
Aliko Dangote is a national treasure. We should protect him at all costs.

if people talk dangote own you go know.. Mind you dangote have backing of who is who in politics. What if they are trying to use him to cover up the case.

Godfullsam:
Dangote was aware of Farouk's reckless spending before now but decided to only voice out when is business is about to be affected.

The who think dangote is fighting for the interest of the masses should go and have a rethink.

Dangote is a coded politician and a business man combined.

He deliberately lowered the price of petroleum far below that of the importers before launching a serious fight against farouk lawal so as to gain public sympathy and trust.

He will later increase the price of petrol once he silence those issuing license to importers and force all petroleum marketers to depend on his product alone.
By then, no one will be able to compete with him. He may even decide to buy up other small small modular refineries in the future.

I am not denying the fact that farouk lawal is a very corrupt man who should be jailed for life. But why is dangote just speaking out?

He might not know Faruk before entering into the oil sector. Also, it will take Him some time to gather information about Faruk.

It's the Agency's duty to investigate not the petitioner's. I don't see why they are inviting Dangote, ICPC is not a court of law, that requires a person to provide evidence.

GEJDHERO:
No be Farouk dem suppos3 invite...shuooo

Accuser must bring authentic evidence or .....



Meanwhile......

Dangote during his press conference already said he has evidence and will present them when it's time.

Infact, he submitted the petition at CCT and ICPC.


He's to big to allege without proof.

Which details again. Icpc should go Switzerland, and confirm wether farouk sons graduated from there and how much is the school fees at that time.

And stop this nonsense icpc wants to embark itself on. Icpc wants to abort the case before delivery day.

DANGOTE WANTS TO ENJOY MONOPOLY OF THE OIL SECTOR, JUST LIKE CEMENT, AND HE IS READY TO FIGHT DIRTY.


DANGOTE IS A MONOPOLISTS NOTHING ANYONE IS GONNA SAY

In a real world where there's sincere fight against corruption, Farouq and Komolafe should be heading to jail. Those ex-regulators are extremely corrupt.

ICPC, EFCC are not ready to do thorough investigation on anything. They only investigate when the accused join opposition party. And is then they present evidences that he is corrupt.
I believe the accusation against him since the accused has refused to prove with evidence that the accusation was false

datola:
What potopoto for a caliber of Dangote

no mind am. He just wan comment.

GEJDHERO:
No be Farouk dem suppos3 invite...shuooo

You think say Nigeria well. Everything for this country turned upside down since apc came into our national lives.

donleo92:
DANGOTE WANTS TO ENJOY MONOPOLY OF THE OIL SECTOR, JUST LIKE CEMENT, AND HE IS READY TO FIGHT DIRTY.


DANGOTE IS A MONOPOLISTS NOTHING ANYONE IS GONNA SAY

I agree with you. Does that exonerate farouk of corruption?!!

asfrank:
It's the Agency's duty to investigate not the petitioner's. I don't see why they are inviting Dangote, ICPC is not a court of law, that requires a person to provide evidence.

To what end is Dangote being invited, merely to attend a party?
Or has it been suggested that he is expected to conduct the investigation himself? Inviting him for questioning is, in fact, an integral part of the investigative process.

jiz:
Dangote the biggest whistle blower in Nigeria

They should retreive every dollar from that school and give dangote 10℅ for blowing whistle.