Ghost workers, IPPIS fraud, and lessons from the ₦941m forfeiture, By Nafisat Bello
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies have shown that stolen public funds can be traced, frozen, and recovered.9 million recovered by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) from an Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) fraud is therefore far more than another anti-corruption success story.
By granting the final forfeiture order after carefully evaluating the ICPC’s evidence, the Federal High Court reaffirmed an important principle: recovered assets must become public property only through lawful judicial processes.
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