The director-general of the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Onyeka Onwenu, has finally honoured the invitation of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over the alleged N17million contract bribe and was granted administrative bail.
According
to a reliable source at the ICPC office, the NCWD DG appeared before the
anti-graft agency on Monday and after answering some questions, she was allowed
to go home on recognition, while investigation into the alleged bribe
continues.
The
source, however, would not confirm the outcome of the investigation on whether
the renowned songstress was indicted or not but promised to make the matter
public when the need arises.
The
NCWD boss had declined to appear to before the anti-corruption agency when
invited last week, claiming that she had to attend to her health first. Other
key persons interrogated on the issue include Mukhtar Usman, Jauro Jibrin and
Sadeeq Umar, who were all released pending the conclusion of the investigation.
Onwenu
is being interrogated after her personal assistant, Chika Abazu, who was on
July 10 arraigned before a Federal Capital Territory High Court on a six-count
charge of bribery and gratification, was involved in a N17 million bribery
allegation.
Though
Abazu pleaded not guilty to the charges, he was denied bail and ordered to be
remanded at the Federal Prisons, Kuje, until the case is dispensed with and the
presiding judge, Justice Chukwu Ndukwe, adjourned the case till September 28
for trial to commence.
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