Former governors, ex-ministers,
top military officers and businessmen are among owners of the properties seized
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The highlights of the forfeiture
were contained in a document obtained by The Nation.
The document indicates that the
EFCC is empowered by the law to place all suspicious assets under interim
assets forfeiture – in line with sections 28 and 34 of the EFCC establishment
act and section 13(1) of the federal high court act, 2004.
Diezani Alison-Madueke, former
minister of petroleum, lost a multi-storey building in Banana Island Foreshore
estate in Ikoyi, a real estate comprising six flats in Ikoyi and an estate of
21 mixed housing in Yaba, Lagos, among others.
Two properties owned by Sambo
Dasuki, former national security adviser, in Kaduna and Abuja were also
forfeited to the federal government.
Also, Haruna Momoh, a former
managing director of PPMC, a subsidiary of Nigerian National Pertroleum
Corporation(NNPC), reportedly lost two mansions in Maitama district, Abuja to
the temporary forfeiture order.
The anti-graft agency also
secured the final seizure of Flat 7B at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi where $43.45
million cash was recovered.
Other owners of the seized
properties include Ibrahim Shema, ex-governor of Katsina stae, (20); Ayodele
Fayose, ex-governor of Ekiti state (three); Babangida Aliyu, ex-governor of
Niger state, (two); Bello Mohammed former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (one); Iyorchia Ayu, former senator (one); Isa Yuguda, former governor of
Bauchi state, (one) and Abba Moro, ex-minister of interior (one) and Micheal
Obasuyi, ex-managing director of Platinum Multi-purpose Cooperative Society
Limited, who bought 134 buses, 20 houses with N11.4 billion slush cash.
According to Ibrahim Magu, EFCC
chairman, about 407 mansions were seized by the agency from 2015 to 2018.
Magu said the forfeited assets
have been handed over to the federal government for use by ministries,
departments and agencies.
“Hundreds of properties such as
filling stations, petroleum products, land, jewellery, automobiles, real
estate, vessels, hospitals, company shares and heavy machinery and broadcast
equipment, have been seized from corrupt elements between 2015 and 2018,” he
said.
“From 2015 to 2018, 407 mansions
were seized, 126 have been forfeited finally and 281 are under interim
forfeiture.
“Nine filling stations were
seized and placed under interim forfeiture. Lands seized sums up to 98, of
which 56 are under interim forfeiture while 42 have been forfeited finally to
the federal government.”
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