On 3 July 2026, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission wrote to the Administrator and Chief Executive Officer of the Public Service Institute of Nigeria, Imeh Patience Okon. The letter, reference CR: 3000/EFCC/ABJ/HQ/TFS/TB-4/PS/VOL.3/116, is signed by CE Abdulkarim Chukkol, Director of Investigation, and its subject is investigation activities. It states that the Commission is investigating an alleged case of abuse of office and fraudulent diversion of funds, and that the need to obtain certain clarifications has become imperative. The Institute stamped the letter received on 9 July 2026, and the file copy carries a handwritten minute directing the Acting Head of Procurement to treat it.
The letter is addressed to the Administrator, with attention to the Director of Procurement. It requests the Administrator to inform and release the Director of Procurement to report for an interview with the Director of Investigation, through the Head of the Tax Fraud Section, on Tuesday 21 July 2026, at 2 Nyala Close off Tunis Street, Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, by 1000 hours.
The officer is not to come empty-handed. The letter requires him to report with the certified true copies of all contracts awarded by the Public Service Institute of Nigeria from 1 July 2025 to date. That window opens six weeks before Imeh Okon’s appointment took effect on 13 August 2025, and it covers every contract awarded in her tenure, from her first day in office to the date of the letter.
For every one of those contracts, the Commission demands the documents evidencing compliance with the Public Procurement Act 2007 for the award of the contracts, the letters of contract award and the duly signed contract agreements, and the details of the full contract sum, the part payments made, the outstanding balance, the variations, if any, and the statutory deductions.
The demand goes past the contract files to the money itself. The letter requires copies of the approved payment vouchers for the contractors, and the bank account details where the contract sums were paid. It requires the certificates of completion issued to the contractors and the project handover documents, and any other information that can aid the investigation.
The letter states that the request is made pursuant to Section 38 (1) and (2) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004. Its reference places it in the third volume of the Commission’s file on the matter, VOL.3.
Six weeks later, the Commission wrote again. The second letter, reference CR:3000/EFCC/ABJ/HQ/SDC4/TB/PSIN/VOL.3/09, is dated 13 August 2026, and it is addressed to the Administrator and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute directly. It is signed by ACE II Chinedu Eneanya, for the Coordinator of the Special Duty Committee at the Commission’s headquarters, under the same subject: investigation activities, request for information. It states that the Commission is investigating a case in which the need to make recourse to her office has become imperative. The Institute stamped this letter received on 17 August 2026, and the file copy carries a handwritten minute directing the Acting Head of Procurement and the Head of Legal to treat it.
The second letter asks for the contracts again, and it reaches further back. It requests certified true copies of the details of all contracts awarded by the Institute, including their present status, from January 2025 to date, a window that opens eight months before Imeh Okon assumed office on 1 September 2025 and covers the whole of her tenure since. For those contracts, it demands the evidence of advert placements, the expressions of interest and the bid documents, the bid evaluation report, the award letters, the payment vouchers, the expense authorisation, the accounts where payments were made and the outstanding obligations, and any other information that will assist the investigation. This request, too, is made under Section 38 (1) and (2) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment) Act, 2004.
Two letters, two units of the same Commission, six weeks apart. The first summoned the Director of Procurement to an interview on 21 July 2026 over an alleged case of abuse of office and fraudulent diversion of funds. The second went to the Administrator’s own office and demanded the whole contract record of the Institute from January 2025. Both letters were written before the petition of 18 September 2026, and the allegations that petition carries were already the subject of a live file at the Commission. The letters name no contractor and state no figure. They demand the paper for all of them: every contract awarded by the Institute, with the vouchers that paid them and the accounts that received the money.
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