PHCN Officials in Police net for Collecting bribe

A top official of the Power Holding
Company of Nigeria, Mr. Omololu Gabriel,
has been arrested by the Independent
Corrupt Practices and other related
offences Commission for allegedly
collecting bribe.

Omololu, the Principal Manager, PHCN Abuja
Distribution Company, Wuse Zone 4, was
arrested by the commission following a
petition by a customer.

A statement by the ICPC Head of Media, Folu
Olamiti, said he allegedly demanded a bribe
of N100,000 from a customer to install two
transformers– a 100 KVA/33/0.415 KV and
a 50 KVA/33/0.415 KV.

ICPC said the petitioner had formally
applied to purchase and install the two
transformers through Omololu, who on
receiving the application demanded a bribe
of
N100, 000 and had subsequently taken
N50, 000 from the petitioner.

According to the statement, infuriated by
Omololu's insistence on collecting the
balance of N50,000 as a condition for
releasing the second transformer, the
petitioner turn to ICPC for succour after
which Omololu was arrested with marked
money paid to him as balance.

The statement added that, "Mr Omololu's
schedule of duties as a public officer are
protection of PHCN installations, testing of
electrical equipment and preparation of
permission letter for release of
transformers, none of which required him
to demand a fee from customers.

"The ICPC operatives were able to establish
that the petitioner, indeed, submitted two
applications for permission to purchase
and install two specification of
transformers and that the petitioner
collected one of the approvals upon
payment of N50, 000.00 demanded by the
suspect. And that the petitioner was denied
the second approval for his inability to
provide the balance of N50,000.00.

"The PHCN official would be facing
prosecution for allegedly contravening
section 8 and 10 of the ICPC Act 2000."

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