Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, on Monday, opposed a report claiming that he retrieved “48 houses” in Abuja, allegedly, seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Sylva in a statement issued in Yenagoa by his media adviser, Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, described the report as strange, speculative and malicious.

He said there was no time he or the courts confirmed that he owned such property and wondered where the publishers of the report got their story.
The former governor threatened legal action against publishers on what he referred to as a “wholly speculative and vindictive report.”

Sylva said he only owned three houses in Abuja which he built before he became the governor of Bayelsa.
The former governor said: “We have a read report in a national newspaper, which was reproduced by a few online publications and in the social media, claiming that Chief Timipre Sylva had ‘retrieved 48 of his property which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seized during the administration of Goodluck Jonathan.’

“We view this report with disgust, given its unconcealed speculation and vindictiveness regarding such a sensitive matter.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Sylva does not own 48 buildings in Abuja or anywhere in the world. So the issue of reclaiming ‘48 houses’ does not arise. He has only three houses in Abuja, which he built before he became the governor of Bayelsa State.

“This point has been made several times before, and neither EFCC nor those who had used EFCC as a tool of persecution against Sylva during the Goodluck Jonathan administration have contradicted this fact.
“EFCC had taken their allegations of property ownership against Sylva to several courts without establishing anything against the former governor during the Jonathan era.

“Beyond the commission’s routine media prosecution, no court of law has found Sylva guilty of any crime. Indeed, in the course of the trials at the Federal High Court, Abuja, owners of some of the properties wrongfully attributed to him joined to claim their houses.

“The court ruled on the matter of the said 48 properties since 2013. Why is it now a subject of media attention? Clearly, this is a sponsored publication.

“Sylva takes great exception to the wholly speculative and vindictive report on the matter. He frowns on the malicious audacity of the publishers of such a story, or their sponsors, despite warnings by the courts against media prosecutions and persecutions like this one, and the attempts by the EFCC to burnish its image that was mindlessly battered during the last administration.

“After failing to prove any crime against Sylva in a democratic court of law for the past four years, this latest media show is another desperate attempt to rubbish him politically.

“To correct the wrong impression that sponsors of the falsehood against him are, obviously, trying to create, Sylva has instructed his lawyers to take legal action against publishers of the fake story.”

Redoil:
These are the type of lies they want to use to fight pej and gej and stay in power for ever.

GoggleB:
Tell us the number of houses he has in Nigeria and Abroad..

Not only residential houses.

Stop giving us bullshit

APC are just too full of lies.

Redoil:

GoggleB:
Tell us the number of houses he has in Nigeria and Abroad..

Not only residential houses.

Stop giving us bullshit

APC are just too full of lies.

phemmyutd:


If you are wise enough, you have provided a link to when the 48 houses were sealed by efcc

Thisis2raw:
B

ceeethru:
This is hope for those under prosecution now. Their own govt will be there tomorrow and the same efcc will do the needful. Just do all you can to get your own govt in power and all is well with u. Nigeria na my country.

CR77:
Receive sense

SamuelAnyawu:
EFCC should sell off the houses....


Spirits now build houses in Abuja?



"Wanderful"

omofunaab:


Na u need sense gan gan

CR77:
IBB

CR77:
Really

SamuelAnyawu:


Sylva has claimed he's not the owner of the 45houses


Surely they were built by spirits

CR77:
Chai

CR77:
Receive sense

petrelli07:

Your lack of comprehension is quite worrisome... Didn't you read the part where he said that the owners of the properties attributed to him even joined him in his suit against the efcc...

Utchgirl:
APC lies (and propaganda) and God's grace hv one tin in common. ; they are new every morning.

They shld provide evidence to back dia claims up or gerarahia mehn.