The Director-General/CEO of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Izuwah Chidi, is dead, multiple sources have said.
He died today after months of debilitating illness. He has been receiving treatment in South Africa since last year for a terminal illness and was brought back to Nigeria last week., a source said.
After an impactful period of exceptional achievements in acting capacity including the declaration of the ICRC as the African Infrastructure Regulator of the Year 2018 by Africa Investor Magazine, the Senate last Thursday confirmed the appointment of Engr. Chidi Izuwah as the substantive Director-General/CEO of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Works, HE Sen. Kabiru Gaya, said the three senators from Abia, the nominee’s state, endorsed his nomination. President Muhammadu Buhari had in November 2018, forwarded his name to the Senate for confirmation.
Engr. Izuwah joined the ICRC in 2009 as the pioneer Executive Director, Public Private Partnership Resource Department (ED P3RD) where he set up the Department from scratch. In this role, he was responsible for catalyzing Public and Private expertise and resources towards putting in place a world class PPP pre-contract regulatory framework and guidelines for driving the preparation and development phase of Federal PPP Projects. During his period as ED P3RD, the ICRC was declared the African PPP Champion for the year 2010. Engr. Izuwah was the ED P3RD until June 2016 when he was made the Executive Director, Support Services Department (EDSS).
Chidi K.C. Izuwah started his career as a lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt. Thereafter, he held several senior oil and gas asset management positions in a career spanning over 21 years with SPDC (Shell Nigeria) and Shell International USA and Europe. He was confirmed to his current position by the senate and formally appointed Director General & CEO of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission in 2019 by President Buhari. He has a first degree in civil engineering from the University of Nigeria and a master’s degree in hydraulic engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He is a frequent speaker at infrastructure finance, Islamic finance, and PPP conferences. Izuwah is also a Harvard, Wharton, Columbia University, and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Executive Education alumni.