ICPC: Bayelsa Restates Zero Tolerance For Corruption, Warns Against Frivolous Petitions

The Bayelsa State Government has reaffirmed its zero tolerance for corruption in governance and cautioned residents against writing frivolous petitions to anti-graft agencies.
Deputy governor, Dr Peter Akpe, stated this when he received the Resident Anti-Corruption Commissioner of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), in charge of Bayelsa and Rivers States, during a courtesy visit to Government House, Yenagoa.
Akpe said the general perception of those in politics has always been that of corruption, but noted that the position of the Governor Douye Diri-led prosperity administration is non-tolerance for corruption.
The deputy governor, who fr...