Memo implicates EFCC, ICPC officials in pension scam

This could be taken as the most serious infiltration of the nation’s anti-graft agencies since their establishment. Documents made available to our reporters indicate the agencies - the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) officials were first compromised by the office of the head of service and later put in the pension biometric bogus payout list. This revelation of corruption inside the most sensitive anti-sleaze agencies, which had earlier drawn criticisms at the public hearing by the Senate committee on establishment, is a major blow to the country’s anti-corruption campaign.

The documents describe how anti-corruption agencies personnel became beneficiaries of various payments for the biometric capturing exercises at the Police Pensions Office, at the instance of the Head of Service of the Federation. For instance