MODIBO Kawu, former Director General Of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC) who is facing corruption charges to the tune of N2.5b, has been appointed as the Deputy Director of Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s campaign organisation.
Kawu was accused by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of allegedly making payment of N2.5b seed grant to Pinnacle Communications Limited, one of the signal distributors for the Digital Switch-over projects.
In a statement signed by Rasheedat Okoduwa, the then spokesperson of the ICPC, the Commission said it quizzed Kawu and other top management staff of the agency over their alleged involvement in the misapplication of the fund.
The presidency had in 2016 released N10 billion to the Ministry of Information and Culture for the digital switch-over programme, which includes the migration of telephone lines from analogue to digital…
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