{"id":69538,"date":"2025-07-02T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69538"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T17:03:04","slug":"icpc-arrests-lagos-council-chairman-muibi-folawiyo-over-alleged-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/02\/icpc-arrests-lagos-council-chairman-muibi-folawiyo-over-alleged-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"ICPC Arrests Lagos Council Chairman Muibi Folawiyo Over Alleged Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has confirmed the arrest of Muibi Folawiyo, Chairman of the Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area, over allegations of large-scale corruption.<\/p>\n<p>ICPC spokesperson Demola Bakare announced on Wednesday that Folawiyo is under investigation for alleged embezzlement of public funds, diversion of government resources for personal use, and violations of official procedures.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bakare, the council chairman was arrested at the council secretariat on 42 Broad Street, Lagos, after repeatedly failing to honour formal invitations from the Commission despite acknowledging them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is currently in our custody. He was arrested by a team from the ICPC Headquarters for the aforementioned reasons but has since been granted administrative bail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is expected to report back today as the investigation continues,\u201d Bakare said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has confirmed the arrest of Muibi Folawiyo, Chairman of the Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area, over allegations of large-scale corruption. ICPC spokesperson Demola Bakare announced on Wednesday that Folawiyo is under investigation for alleged embezzlement of public funds, diversion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69540,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69538\/revisions\/69540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}