The Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property says it is investigating three Permanent Secretaries over alleged corruption and abuse of office.
Chairman of the panel, Okoi Obono-Obla, who said this at a news conference in Abuja, he said that one of the permanent secretaries bought a house in Asokoro, Abuja, for over 500 million naira.
According to him, the permanent secretary purchased the house in the name of her eight-year old son.
He also said that the female top government functionary had a registered company through which she had been conducting businesses.
The chairman further said that the panel had been making a lot of recoveries for the Federal Government, from banks.
He said that the most recent of the recoveries was over 216 million naira from a commercial bank.