By Our Reporter
Abuja (Precise Post) – Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, was on Friday suspended over the N2.5billion fraud currently pending in the court.
Following this development, the most senior director in the Commission, Professor Armstrong Idachaba, was asked to assume office as the Director General f the Commission.
The approval of the suspension by President Mohammad Buhari is in line with the anti-corruption fight of his administration.
President Buhari said that the suspension takes immediate effect.
President Mohammad Buhari on Friday announced the suspension of the Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, over the N2.5billion fraud currently pending in the court.
Recall that Kawu is being prosecuted in connection with pinnacle communications, the signal carrier of the Abuja digitization exercise by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), over alleged N2.5 billion sleaze on the DSO project.
The ICPC had asked the Federal Government to suspend Modibbo Kawu from office pending the conclusion of the case.
