The President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has come under fire from the Labour Party (LP) and the African Action Congress (AAC) for designating N3 billion for the refurbishment of two opulent Abuja houses that were forfeited to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
According to Anaedoonline.ng, the Federal Capital Territory’s Guzape and Mabushi properties are among the illicitly obtained assets and money laundering proceeds that the EFCC has seized.
The Federal Government intends to develop State House complexes out of the reclaimed estates, according to a document obtained by the Punch on Wednesday.
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These are some of the specifics of the State House’s 2023 Supplementary Appropriations that were submitted to the National Assembly for approval.
The paper stated that N1.5 billion was set aside for the purchase, remodelling, and restoration of two properties. EFCC lost space at the Mabushi State House Complex.
An additional N1.5 billion was set aside for the purchase, refurbishment, and restoration of two properties. The EFCC gave over its rooms at the Guzape State House Complex.
The National Publicity Secretary for the AAC, Olorunfemi Adeyeye, and the spokesperson for the LP Presidential Campaign Council, Yunusa Tanko, both stated in an interview with the aforementioned publication that the action was evidence that Tinubu’s administration is indifferent to the suffering of the Nigerian people.
Tanko said, “Nigerians must resist this in its totality; not in the midst of hunger, poverty, and insecurity should anyone earmark such huge amount of money for the jamboree. However, we have earlier foreseen this; we’ve seen this before, and it has been interplayed.”
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On his part, Adeyeye said, “The Nigerian masses must vehemently resist this ridiculous move by the Tinubu-led government to expend N3bn in renovating two properties seized from political thieves. Of course, the forfeited properties in question would have most likely been recovered from members of the same bourgeois class as the President whether in the All Progressives Congress or in the Peoples Democratic Party or any of their appendages.
“However, as we have always said, now is another good time for Nigerians to troop out and occupy the streets in protest against all anti-people’s policies by the Tinubu-led government ranging from fuel subsidy removal to increment in tuition fees across public tertiary institutions, amongst others.”
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