The receipt of the petition filed against the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, has been confirmed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.

The spokesperson of the anti-graft agency, John Okor Odey, said, “The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) writes to confirm that it received a formal petition today, Tuesday, 16th December 2025, from Alhaji Aliko Dangote through his lawyer. The petition is against the CEO of the NMDPRA, Alhaji Farouk Ahmed.”

In the petition, the Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, made a call on the ICPC to arrest, investigate, and prosecute Ahmed over allegations of corruption and financial impropriety, saying that the alleged spending doesn’t match earnings from public service, adding that such a situation would ordinarily attract scrutiny from tax authorities.

According to the petition, Dangote claimed that Ahmed spent over $5 million on the education of his four children in Switzerland, reportedly paid upfront for six years, without any lawful or recognised source of income to justify such expenditure.

“That Engr Farouk Ahmed has grossly abused his office contrary to the extant provisions of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers and, by so doing, enmeshed himself in monumental corruption and unlawful spending of public funds running into millions of dollars.

“That Engr. Farouk Ahmed spent, without evidence of lawful means of income, a humongous sum of over $7m of public funds on the education of his four children in different schools in Switzerland for a period of six years upfront,” the petition stated.

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Dangote, further accused Ahmed of diverting public funds for personal gain through the instrumentality of the NMDPRA, an action he claimed fuelled public outrage and recent protests by civil society groups.

“It is without doubt that the above facts in relation to abuse of office, breach of the Code of Conduct for public officers, corrupt enrichment and embezzlement are gross acts of corrupt practices for which your Commission is statutorily empowered under Section 19 of the ICPC Act to investigate and prosecute,” Dangote said.

Source: TVC