The senior special assistant to the president on prosecution, Mr Okoi Obono-Obla on Tuesday, September 5, urged the federal government to take over empty houses in Abuja and sell them.

Cross River-born Obono-Obla, who is also the chairman of the special presidential investigation panel for the recovery of public property, made this known when the Say no Campaign, a civil society organisation, paid a courtesy call on him in Abuja.

He stated that it was important for the government to collaborate with civil society groups in order to search out properties of looters of national treasury.
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“I want the houses taken over, that is where CSOs will have to work together with us.
“We have to take over those building and sell them and maybe put the money into education for our children.
“I was appointed to work to galvanise the anti-corruption war this assignment is a very important one and I will do it well,”he said.

Obono-Obla also said that there was a law known as the Recovery of Public Property Special Provisions Act which had been in existence for the past 40 years without being implemented by successive governments.
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He said that if that law was used, corruption would have been reduced drastically in Nigeria.
“If you know public servants or directors that have properties, bring their names. I have been asked to focus on the public sector corruption which is the endemic one.

“We can investigate anyone with a source of wealth that cannot be explained.”he added.
Earlier, the director of Say No Campaign, Mr Ezenwa Nwagwu, expressed the organisation's worry about the mode of prosecutions, especially those carried out by anti-corruption agencies.

He stated that the Say No Campaign and other Civil Society Organisations are ready to partner with the presidential aide to make his job easier.
His words:“There are compromises involved. There are constraints in government that we don't have, so if we partner together, we'll be able to do much more.
“We want to be able to screen out particular areas where we will be able to assist you.
“There is a personality cult around the fight around the anti-corruption fight and that is not helpful. We want the citizens of our country to own the fight.”
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The party made the allegation on Monday, September 4, in relation to series of allegations levelled against the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, by the senator representing Bauchi Central, Isah Misau.

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Source: http://RationalTV..in/2017/09/fg-must-take-over-empty-houses-in-abuja.html

They have started again....

Ok

So this man wants to do another abandoned property?

I can see these niger delta dolts can't invest on their own without taking igbo properties like they did after the war.

Nigger-area and backward mentality

What about people who acquired their properties by legitimate means?

Guestlander:
What about people who acquired their properties by legitimate means?

Hope you did read the article it said "...Properties of looters of national treasury."

I think Federal Government is trying to win the war against rat inversion
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99.5% gbosaa for you.......
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Meanwhile, we are watching.

I'm in support of this... there are so many empty houses owned by politicians in Abuja. . since they are not using it make fg kukuma sell them

OK and the 48 houses returned to timipre sylva does not belong to looters abi?

No intent to support criminality but what is good for the goose is good for the gander,APC led govt is a sham.

Good move

good, that will crash the ungodly house rent in abuja

Interesting

If the owners are paying property tax on the properties, trust me, it won't be empty.

E for make sense o. Imagine if the number of empty houses in ABUJA are seized, rent will crash like the naira.
Some estates have never been occupied and yet the landlords don't care. This is a sign that they were possibly acquired with stolen funds. Which biz man invests so much and leaves it as a non earning asset for years and is not bothered at all?

for how much??

Something must be wrong with this government

lol scammer



whats your biz with people property


this APC govt dont even know they priorities


if they are not chasing social media, they are signing useless laws

Many empty houses in Abuja.
Lizards are living in most of them without paying rent!

This Obono-Obla guy is too flippant with words to have found his way into Nigerian Justice Department, is still a misery, listening to him as he spew trash in support of DSS vandalism and extortion of Judges with impunity, he, being a legal practitioner advocated that they suffer the same fate with Dasuki...that moment, I gave up on Nigeria Justice System.
Obla and his gang have only proven that in Nigeria "life is a privilege and not a right"

Its over 2 weeks since Buhari received SGF et al report and nothing have been done till now...they have adopted the 6 weeks strategy.

All over the world, people have summer/vacation house, confiscating opposing voices house with defeated Judges cannot guarantee their masters victory come 2019...the day of reckoning is coming.

May be he needs to go to China too and take over abandoned properties. The worst set of humans are in APC government.

Buhari and Apc no go kill us for dis country.

How does it concern you if the houses are empty?

Some of those properties are owned by people who acquired them through legitimate means

Ndi ala

Are you people really this stupid? It's really a zoo!

BTW, there's nowhere in the article where they suggested seizing and selling of empty houses.

Just a click bait

"Another slimy attempt by the Hausa-Fulani establishment to take over Igbo owned houses and attack PDP (most houses in Abuja are owned by either hardworking Igbo businessmen or PDP looters)."

This man in particular is synonymous with talking absolute nonsense every single time.

His size doesn't even help as he comes off looking like the village eediot

How he oozes stewpidity with so much gusto has got to be one of APCs top 10 mysteries

justineu:
Something must be wrong with this government

is u that something is wrong with,u must be sick in the brain for that ur statement do u no how many houses in abuja that nobody is inside for five to ten ?u seat down that forest and start texting nonsense.I'm 100% support government on this.I feel sorry for this country for God to miss us with people that have mental damage like u

and sell to APC members

Am very sure this man is targeting some of the said abandoned houses for acquisition. Trust Nigerians.