 The judicial panel of enquiries set out by Governor Alex Ote to probe the immediate past administration commenced its sit-in vowing to adhere strictly to his terms of reference and go after proven looters. Ote had set up the six-member judicial panel of enquiry on the recovery of government properties, funds and related matters and gave it the tax of recovering looted government properties and funds. Speaking at inaugural sit-in of the panel, the Chairman, Justice Florence Duroha Igwe, underscored the importance of each assignment, saying it was both investigatory and advisory. Funds and properties, both movable and immovable, offered a state between May 2015 to May 2023 and when we do, we shall lay it open and make credible recommendations to the Governor. Post-202 investigative group, we shall profile advice to the Governor. I want this to be clear in the minds of everybody that we are not here to conduct an inquisition or go witch hunting. No, that is not what this commission is all about. The enquiry or sit-ins of this panel shall be held in public. The honorable members of this panel of enquiry shall exercise all the powers we regard to obtaining evidence and conduct of the proceedings, as provided by Section 8 of the Commission of Enquiry Law Number Law Volume 1 of CAHP 69, Laws of the State of Nigeria, 2005. This includes the power to summon any person in Nigeria to attend any sitting of the panel to give evidence or produce any documents or other things in his possession and to examine him as a witness or require him to produce any documents or other things in his possession. News updates.