Over 500 case files have been retrieved from the office of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property for review by the Federal Ministry of Justice, The PUNCH learnt on Monday.
Our correspondent learnt that an eight-man panel set up by the Department of Public Prosecutions in the ministry is reviewing the heaps of files retrieved from the office of the panel in the Asokoro area of Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on September 18, 2019 dissolved the SPIP led by Okoi Obono-Obla and directed the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), to take over the panel’s cases.
The panel which was constituted in August 2017 was dissolved by the President following the probe launched against its then chairman, Obono-Obla, by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission which levelled among other charges against him, falsification of records and financial impropriety.
