N3BN FRAUD: ICPC FREEZES SURE-P DIRECTORS’S ACCOUNTS, SEIZE VEHICLES

-     -     The Independent Corruption Practices and other Related Offences Commission has begun a probe into the activities of directors and senior officials of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.

-     -     It was learnt that the ICPC had frozen the accounts of some of the officials while some vehicles had been seized from them.

-       -   SURE-P was set up by the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan in February 2012 after which nationwide protests followed the hike in the prices of petroleum products.

-      -    The programme was scrapped by President Buhari in November last year.

       CULLED FROM THE PUNCH.