LIST OF REASONS

INTRO:  The rationale behind the creation of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is for investigation, prosecution and prevention of corruption in the public offices in Nigeria towards achieving a Nigeria free from all forms of corruption. The anti-graft institution is a strategy for conscious state actions in the implementation of international conventions against corruption, such as the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), and also an approach to laundering the shameful image of  Nigeria as a "fantastically corrupt country".  President Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo inaugurated the Commission which prides herself as the apex anti-graft institution in Nigeria, on September 29, 2000 after the Commission was established by the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Act 2000 signed into law on June 13, 2000.  The ICPC establishment Act features among other things independence of the Commission, powers of the of...