Senate threatens to withdraw lands allocated to Jonathan and others....

The Senate on Friday revealed how former President Goodluck Jonathan; the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus; and a former Attorney General of Federation and Minister of Justice, Muhammed Bello Adoke, acquired plots of land ‎designated for erection of tourist structure for foreign visitors.‎


Other beneficiaries of the land located in Maitama area of Abuja included former Governor of Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda‎; and late National Security Adviser, Andrew Okoye Azazi.

The Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, however, threatened to order the revocation of the plots of land said to have been allocated to Jonathan and 29 others on the basis of being on a reserved area.

The threat was issued by its Chairman, Senator Dino Melaye (APC Kogi West), during a budget defence meeting between the committee and the FCT Minister, Muhammed Bello.

According to Melaye, the plots of land allocated to Jonathan and others in the Maitama District fall within an area designated for erection of tourist structure for foreign visitors.‎

He announced that his committee had directed that work should stop on construction and buildings on the area.

Melaye had on the strength of the Senate’s directive to all its standing committees last week to embark on oversight functions of agencies of government under them, stormed the plots of land in Maitama District along with members of his committee where they saw workers erecting structures on them.

Aside ordering the workers to stop work, they also summoned the FCT Minister to appear before them on the matter, which he did on friday along with his budget defence.