Authorities of the Federal Capital Territory has sealed-off
the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing located at Mabushi in Abuja.
The exercise, which is connected with its drive to recoup
about N10billion owed the Abuja Environmental Protection Board, AEPB, also
affected the popular Murg plaza located just opposite the UTC Market, at Area
10, Garki, Merit House, and the Federal Character Commission, among others.
It was carried out early Tuesday morning by heavily armed
security personnel drawn from the police, Civil Defense Corps, among others.
The Director of the Abuja Environment Protection Board (AEPB),
Engineer Osilama Braimah, who doubles as Chairman of the Special Debt
Taskforce, in company of the Senior Special Assistant to the FCT Minister on
Monitoring Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah, monitored the
exercise.
Braimah said government Ministries, Departments and Agencies
were owing to the tune of 10 billion Naira and this, he said, was not
acceptable.
He, however, hinted that some ministries were making frantic
efforts to pay, while others show signs of unwillingness to pay.
According to him, “The board got court orders to seal the
premises.”
He said the exercise, which has just begun, will cover all
public and private offices owing the board.
A senior magistrate court sitting in Wuse II, Abuja, had
served the defendants with summons to appear before the court on March 30th,
2022, but they failed to honour the court.
“The debtors include: Federal Ministry of Works —
N9,998,625.00; Federal Ministry of Defence –N17,220,775.00; Federal Character
Commission—N10,128,906.25; Civil service Commission–2,451,649.50; and Revenue
Mobilization and Fiscal Commission—21,683,750.00.
“Others are Federal Ministry of Health —N14,204,843.75;
Federal Ministry of Trade & Investment—N19,222,287.50; Federal Ministry of
Education Hqtrs –N25,838,275 ; and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
Wuse–N16,583,031.25”, he stressed.
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