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A former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar (retd. ) has temporarily forfeited five properties to the Federal Government , Sunday PUNCH has learnt .
According to court documents sighted by our correspondent, the properties include four mansions and a castle with a mosque .
Three of the properties are located in the upscale areas of Maitama and Asokoro in Abuja while two others are located in Kaduna and Kano.

The properties are : A six- bedroomed duplex with two- bedroomed ‘boys quarters ’ located at 14 Vistula Close off Panama Street, Maitama which he allegedly bought for N 700m ; a castle with a swimming pool and a mosque located at 1853 Denf Xiao Ping Street, Asokoro Extension which he allegedly purchased at N 860 m and renovated at the cost of N66m in 2012.

Other properties include a four -bedroomed duplex with a ‘boys quarters ’ located at Road 38, Street 2 , Ministers’ Hill , Mabushi which he allegedly bought at a cost of N 500m ; a three- bedroomed duplex and a three-bedroomed guest chalet located at 8 Kabala Road Unguwan Rimi, GRA, Kaduna State allegedly purchased at the cost of N 80m while between N75m and N80m was spent on the renovation .
The suspect also forfeited a six -bedroomed duplex with ‘ boys’ quarters ’ and a two- bedroomed guest chalet located at 14 Audu Bako Way , Nasarawa GRA, Kano State.

Acting on an affidavit in support of the motion sworn to by Hammadama Bello and Sylvanus Tahir for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , Justice J. T Tsoho ordered an interim forfeiture of the assets and the stoppage of any disposal , conveyance, mortgage , lease , sale or alienation or otherwise of the assets or properties .
The judge also authorised the chairman of the EFCC to appoint competent persons or firms to manage the assets and the proceeds realised from them to be lodged in an interest- yielding account pending the conclusion of Umar’s trial .

The judge, however , ordered that the EFCC shall file an undertaking to compensate Umar if it turns out that the forfeiture order ought not to have been granted .
Umar, who is currently standing trial before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of a Federal High Court in Maitama , is accused of diverting N9 .7 bn from the account of the Nigerian Air Force.

The former air chief , who served between September 2010 and 2012, was accused of diverting about N 558m from the Air Force account monthly .
At the last hearing on February 13, 2017, an EFCC witness, Air Commodore S. A. Yusahau (retd .), who is a former Director of Finance and Accounts, narrated how Umar used NAF funds to acquire the properties.
He said, “ I receive all money of the Nigerian Air Force and disburse it as authorised by the defendant . The Nigerian Air Force received its funds to the tune of N 4 bn monthly .

“ Of the N 4bn , the actual figure used in paying staff salary was between N 2 .3 bn and N2 . 4bn . Out of the remaining N1 .6 bn , N 558 .2 m was usually set aside for upkeep of the defendant (Umar), while N 120 m was for the office of the DFA (Director of Finance and Accounts). ”
He alleged that the N 558 .2 m that was set aside for the upkeep of the Chief of Air Staff’s office was always converted to its dollar equivalent and taken to Umar in his house .



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Bet why?

Between Jonathan and Buhari I can't tell which is better. Click like for Buhari and share for Jonathan

Ok

SAME THIEVING ELDER STATEMEN.

CURSED SET OF PEOPLE.

UNFORTUNATE SET OF ELDERS.

Stelvin101:
Between Jonathan and Buhari I can't tell which is better. Click like for Buhari and share for Jonathan

We are not gonna click any like or share. If you need likes and shares, contribute meaningfully to discussions instead of going about tactfully begging for same.

@topic: it is on record that Jonathan wittingly signed off on the fuckfest that characterised his administration. His utterances such as that of the pic posted up there and the "yam and goat theorem" encouraged and emboldened both practicing and aspiring crooks to plunder our commonwealth, with guarantees there'd be no repercussions what so ever.

It is a fact, had that renegade government not been thrown out, most of what we know today would have remained in the dark and the fuckfest would have gone on unabated.

Sometimes I just can't help but wonder how we made it through those dark years.

Smh.

omenkaLives:
We are not gonna click any like or share. If you need likes and shares, contribute meaningfully to discussions instead of going about tactfully begging for same.

@topic: it is on record that Jonathan wittingly signed off on the fuckfest that characterised his administration. His utterances such as that of the pic posted up there and the "yam and goat theorem" encouraged and emboldened both practicing and aspiring crooks to plunder our commonwealth, with guarantees there'd be no repercussions what so ever.

It is a fact, had that renegade government not been thrown out, most of what we know today would have remained in the dark and the fuckfest would have gone on unabated.

Sometimes I just can't help but wonder how we made it through those dark years.

Smh.

With the present economic hardship or not , this Buhari regime is still far better than GEJs .
Anyone can come for my head but deep in our minds we all know that the longterm effect of the present policies will help the next incoming governments .

Even during Gej regime, the masses cried for help out of frustration , but imstead the rich got richer by stealing without query ...
but here we are in a buhari regime where both rich and poor are crying and laughing at the same time . Seems better to me .

The rich cant spend frivoloulsy again because they know the money was stolen and it is now "illegal" to spend unlike before .

Truth be told Buhari put some fight in the War against corruption but my main grouse with him is poor vision and economic recklessness which has done more harm to the average Nigerian than corruption

This government is more concerned with laying solid foundation unlike the past that i would aptly call a lootocracy. The already laid foundation is the reason why the acting president is performing wonders.

I'm beginning to see all the houses maitama and asokoro as proceeds of crime.

omenkaLives:
We are not gonna click any like or share. If you need likes and shares, contribute meaningfully to discussions instead of going about tactfully begging for same.

@topic: it is on record that Jonathan wittingly signed off on the fuckfest that characterised his administration. His utterances such as that of the pic posted up there and the "yam and goat theorem" encouraged and emboldened both practicing and aspiring crooks to plunder our commonwealth, with guarantees there'd be no repercussions what so ever.

It is a fact, had that renegade government not been thrown out, most of what we know today would have remained in the dark and the fuckfest would have gone on unabated.

Sometimes I just can't help but wonder how we made it through those dark years.

Smh.

All the bullshit u just type. I don't give a fvck

Only God go bless Buhari. Bade and Amuson shud b castrated