The Special Presidential Investigation Panel, for Recovery of Public Property has given the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, a former Speaker of the House of Reps, Dimeji Bankole, and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloysius Katsina-Alu, 21 days to vacate their residences.

The Chief Okoi Obono-Obla-led panel issued the quit notice on Thursday to the three politicians, as well as former Deputy Speaker and current Senator Usman Bayero Nafada.

A former Senate President, David Mark, received similar quit notice from the Panel back in September to which he had since filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja to quash all the steps taken to evict him and recover the house from him by the panel.

The panel said the five of them illegally acquired their then-official residences as their private properties.

According to DailyTrust, the immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan had in November 2010 reportedly gave leave to the Senate President, the Deputy Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, to “purchase” their official quarters.

A source told Daily Trust, “The Senate President’s residence was sold to David Mark for N748 million; Speaker, House of Representatives’ residence was sold to Hon Dimeji Bankole for N670 million; while Deputy Senate President residence was sold to Senator Ike Ekweremadu for N458 million.

“Deputy Speaker House of Representatives residence was sold to Senator Nafada for N348.5 million; and they were all sold without competitive bidding contrary to the provisions of the Public Procurement Act especially Section 15 thereof”, one of the sources said, adding that the residence of Juctice Katsina-Alu was sold to him at N45million.

The newspaper also reports that former President Jonathan had directed that the sale of the property should be gazetted in the Federal Government Gazette in his minute in a memo sent to him by the then minister of the FCT Senator Bala Muhammad dated 18 November 2010, but that was not done.

The source added, “A gazette is a notice to the whole world of the position of government on any issue and since there was a prevailing gazette that the house bought by the plaintiff (referring to David Mark) should not be sold under Government monetization policy, the gazette would have superseded the previous one.

“So the previous gazette prevails since the sale was not gazetted. That alone has vitiated the sale. Secondly the sale is against the public procurement Act which provides any contract for a good and service must be through competitive bidding. The sale was not through competitive bidding.”

According to the news outlet added that the houses, which were not ordinary houses but institutional houses to principal officers of the National Assembly and the Executive had no right in the first place to given order for the houses to be sold

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lalasticlala

This is not the way to go about a previous govts policy

That man from Cross river okono obla will Bite his Fingers Very Soon.

I don't pity Any of them Politicians dey don't Regard us Citizen's

According to the news outlet added that the houses, which were not ordinary houses but institutional houses to principal officers of the National Assembly and the Executive had no right in the first place to given order for the houses to be sold

Kai...Jonathan really did many funny things to please people. Obasanjo did same too sha (selling Ministers' Quarters). Why should houses for SP, Speakers, CJN be sold in the first place since there would be future occupants? What if a president decides to sell the presidential villa to himself one day before leaving office?

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APC govt and wahala

Dre is not a Single Thing that Happens in this Gov fr which APC won't Drag Gej into it.

APC will never recover from d Gej fever

SadiqBabaSani:
Dre is not a Single Thing that Happens in this Gov fr which APC won't Drag Gej into it.

APC will never recover from d Gej fever

Will you still react this way if Buhari sells Aso rock to himself at the end of his tenure?

To some people we should keep building official residence every 4 years.

I remember BAT acquiring some properties belonging to LASG without any competitive biddings...

I didn't hear a sound from anyone...

When 2 elephant fight.m...

Na we go still suffer am.....

Tommorow u go here hear say New house allocation 15trillion.

Nkem na ole

Make una give us fuel this one no concern me

We are watching

What of Buhari eviction notice?

This should be replicated in Lagos. Ambode should reverse the purchase of Governor's lodge by Tinubu

How this one help this hardship of Fuel scarcity?

enyice:
I remember BAT acquiring some properties belonging to LASG without any competitive biddings...

I didn't hear a sound from anyone...

Dats d Hypocrisy of d Ewedu Muslims

Hmmmmmmm. I reserve my comment

why sell an official residence in the first instance.
those properties are national symbols with its own security details and should never have been converted to a private residence.
revoking the sales is a good step in the right direction.

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I like this shows dem o, na triangle, trioangle, quryangle, abi n which kind angle be this

agabusta:
To some people we should keep building official residence every 4 years.

they don't need official residence from the government, they already get every other thing for free. They can serve the country from their own houses like every other public servant in saner climes! That is why nigeria has the highest cost of governance in the whole world.

Governors, deputies and d president n his vice shd also pay some changes and take up their residences if that's d case. Pls they shd vacate. Ole, barawo, we can't be building all d time for new officers

emma321:


A source told Daily Trust, “The Senate President’s residence was sold to David Mark for N748 million; Speaker, House of Representatives’ residence was sold to Hon Dimeji Bankole for N670 million; while Deputy Senate President residence was sold to Senator Ike Ekweremadu for N458 million.

“Deputy Speaker House of Representatives residence was sold to Senator Nafada for N348.5 million; and they were all sold without competitive bidding contrary to the provisions of the Public Procurement Act especially Section 15 thereof”, one of the sources said, adding that the residence of Juctice Katsina-Alu was sold to him at N45million.

I wouldn't be surprised if each of those buildings was sold at 10% of the cost.

I doubt those properties can ever be recovered. A law should simply be passed to prevent such anomalies from re-occuring in future.