President Muhammadu Buhari has presented the 2021 Public Service Integrity Awards to three Nigerians for exemplary conduct in the discharge of their services to the nation.
Point News247 reports that the awards were given at the 3rd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector organised by the ICPC.
The awardees are Deputy Director, Legal, Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Nelson Okoronkwo; Assistant Commander of Narcotics, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Muhammad Ahmad and a PhD student, from Imo State, studying in Japan, Ikenna Nweke.
Okoronkwo was recognised for his consistent acts of integrity in the different ministries where he served.
He is a committee member on fertiliser distribution that led to the recovery of billions of naira from racketeers with collaborators within the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
He was also credited to have reported corrupt practices that led to the Ogoni cleanup investigation in the Federal Ministry of Environment.
Okoronkwo while serving as Committee Chairman on Illegal Recruitment in the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, facilitated the detection and removal of over 3000 fake employers from the Service, thereby saving the government millions of naira in terms of salaries and emoluments.
Ahmad, was recognised for demonstrating the highest ideals and standards of the public service in the discharge of his responsibilities.
He is also a recipient of the Chairman/Chief Executive Award for Outstanding Performance and Integrity.
Ahmad recently recovered and declared to his Agency the sum of 24,500 USD offered to him as bribe by a drug baron to compromise an investigation of 27.950 kg of cocaine, worth billions of naira.l
Nweke is a Nigerian PhD student in Japan.
He found a wallet containing a very large amount of money and other valuables returned it to the Japanese police.
He declined 10 per cent of the money offered to him as a reward.