The anti-graft commission stated this against the a media (not Us) inquiry into the ongoing investigation of a director in the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, for allegedly falsifying his year of entry into service. The director was alleged to have falsified his record, with a view to elongating his year of service in the Federal Civil Service. The investigation, it was gathered, followed a petition, dated May 27, 2015, sent to the ICPC, entitled: “Serious Misconduct/Falsification and Suppression of Official Record,” signed by one Nuhu Adamu, copies of which were sent to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF); Head of Service of the Federation and the chairman, Federal Civil Service Commission, urging the anti-corruption commission to address the issue to serve as deterrent to others. The petition originally submitted by Adamu was later modified by the Abuja chapter of the National Anti-Corruption Volunteer Corps, a national vanguard against the continued toleration and impunity of corruption, with their clarification letter to the ICPC, dated November 12, 2015. The petition alleged that the director, who entered into service in July, 1979, allegedly doctored his year of entry to read July, 1982 and had since remained in service. Based on the original year of entry into the Civil Service, documented at the Federal Civil Service Commission, the director ought to have retired in 2014, when he would have served the mandatory 35 years, but still in service two years after, as his date of entrance into the service was documented as July 30, 1979. A source, who preferred not to be named, because he was not authorised to speak on behalf of ICPC, told the Nigerian Tribune on Thursday, in Abuja, that it was never in the practice of the commission to divulge information on ongoing investigation. He added that if a petition was, indeed, sent to the commission, he was sure that the ICPC investigation unit would by now be working on it and would only make it findings known after concluding its investigation. According to him, “it is not in our our practice here to subject anyone being investigated to media trial. It is even against the Act establishing the commission. Source: tribuneonlineng.com]]>