Fayose tells FG to publish recovered properties

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has told the federal
government to publish all the properties it claimed to have recovered
and their owners as well as buyers of the properties when they are
eventually sold.

The governor, who said Nigerians were no longer interested in being
governed with propaganda, said “Nigerians want to know how many
properties were recovered and who bought the properties. Who
authorized the sale? Nigerians want details, not propaganda because
most of these properties have been sold and resold.”

According to a statement on Wednesday by his Special Assistant on
Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose
said “the federal government should create a website where all the
properties recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) and to whom they were sold will be listed so that by one click,
Nigerians will have information.”

The governor said it will difficult to trust the EFCC reports on
recovered looted funds and properties, asking; “How can Nigerians
continue to trust the position of the same EFCC that said in April
2016 that the allegation of corruption against Code of Conduct
Tribunal (CCT) Chairman, Danladi Umar was mere suspicion and would be
difficult to proof in court, but now charged the same CCT chairman to
court on the allegation it described as mere suspicion?

He said; “On November 23, 2017, Senator Emmanuel Paulker, the Chairman
of the Senate committee investigating the botched reinstatement and
promotion of the former Chairman the Presidential Task Force on
Pensions, under the leadership of Ibrahim Maina told Nigerians on the
floor of the Senate that almost all the exotic properties recovered
from alleged looters of Pension Funds had already been re-looted by
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

“Last year November also, the Attorney General of the Federation,
Abubakar Malami (SAN), while testifying before the National Assembly
alleged that one of the properties recovered from alleged looters of
Pension Funds was already sold to a Lagos lawyer.

“How are we now sure that the same people who re-looted the recovered
pension loots have not also looted the recovered properties the
President said will be sold?’

Speaking further, Governor Fayose said; “The federal government cannot
continue to tell Nigerians stories without background. The era of Baba
has said is gone in Nigeria. The era of the president acting like a
lord of manor is gone, we are in a democracy.

“Many people were blackmailed and coerced to surrender their
properties. A typical case is the one on Malabu Oil where people have
been scandalized, harassed and their names destroyed via media trial
and the Attorney General of the Federation now come out to say that
there is no enough evidence to try them. What will now happen to the
lies told against those people?

“The federal government should therefore publish and state clearly
what has happened in the EFCC between 2006 and now. Nigerians need to
know the recovered properties sold by Ibrahim Magu’s predecessor,
Ibrahim Lamorde and other previous EFCC chairmen. Those who bought
them should be made public too.”