El Rufai is not a fit and
proper person to hold
office in a democratic
setting.
**he corruptly enriched
and abused his position as
a Minister.
Former Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) Minister
Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has
been declared unfit to hold
public office. He is also to
forfeit a house he allegedly
allocated to himself during
the sale of Federal
Government houses in
Abuja.
In an interim report, the
Senate Joint Committees
on FCT and Housing which
probed the FCT
Administration(FCTA)
between 1999 and 2007,
said "el-Rufai is not a fit
and proper person to hold
office in a democratic
setting."
The committee’s
chairman, Senator
Abubakar Sodangi,
submitted the report
yesterday.
The report upbraided el-
Rufai over the sale of
Federal Government
houses in FCT, and
recommended that his
administration should
account for N32billion
balance of the proceeds.
Besides, el-Rufai is to
account for funds
collected by the Abuja
Geographic Information
System (AGIS), Satellite
Town Development Agency
and Abuja Investments and
Property Development
Company Limited.
The panel also
recommended that all
those who disobeyed court
orders then should be
prosecuted by the
Attorney-General of the
Federation (AGF).
A copy of the
recommendations obtained
by The Nation reads: "All
officers who disobeyed or
ordered the disobedience
of court orders should be
prosecuted by the
Attorney-General of the
Federation;"
"Also on the sale of
Federal Government
houses, the total receipt is
N96.7 billion and deductions
were N34.2 billion and the
balance was given as
N62.19 billion. The bank
statements showed only
N29 billion, leaving a balance
of only N32 billion
unaccounted for despite all
demands from him and his
officers."
"After assessing the
activities of Mallam el-Rufai
in his duties as FCT
Minister we came to the
inevitable conclusion that:
•he should account for all
funds collected by the ad-
hoc bodies he raised during
his tenure, namely AGIS, Ad
hoc Committee on sale of
government houses in FCT,
the Satellite Town
Development Agency, and
Abuja Investments and
Property Development
Company Limited, among
others;
•that the house he
obtained for himself where
he signed as lessor and
lessee be revoked as a
person cannot sell an item
to himself; and
•that Mallam el-Rufai is
not a fit and proper
person to hold public office
in a democratic set up." -
From Augustine Ehikoya,
Abuja
[the Nations News].

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